Humor (Fiction)

If Winter Don't

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'.We follow the professional and marital decl…

Cobb's Anatomy (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Irvin S. Cobb


Irving S. Cobb discusses the human body and its various strange parts in his own inimitable hilarious style. He discusses the tummy and th…

Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass''

Read by Scotty Smith


Bill Nye


There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong.…

Een Ongeluksvogel

Read by Anna Simon


George Lodewijk Kepper


'Een ongeluksvogel' is een roman uit 1868, over de lotgevallen van Eduard van Bergen - zijn opvoeding, schooltijd, vriendschap, liefde en av…

A Valentine (From an old Lover)

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Jessie Pope


Jessie Pope was an extremely patriotic English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems publ…

The Schoolmistress

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Arthur Wing Pinero


The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: "Th…

Dandy Dick

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Arthur Wing Pinero


“Dandy Dick” was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatre—a series of plays which, besides giving playgoers …

Love and Freindship (Dramatic Reading)

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Jane Austen


Love and Freindship [sic] is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels…

The Tale of Paddy Muskrat

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Arthur Scott Bailey


Enter Pleasant Valley, the home of the interesting and entertaining creatures and adventures born of American author Arthur Scott Bailey. Th…

Comedies of Courtship

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Anthony Hope


A series of short stories about love and the process of courtship. - Summary by Michele Eaton

The Return of Don Quixote

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G. K. Chesterton


The mirthful story of a Don Quixote who, riding into a world of fetes and parties, tilts a humorous and well aimed lance at some of the conv…

Voces Populi

Read by Don W. Jenkins


F. Anstey


F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…

Mr. Incoul's Misadventure

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Edgar Saltus


Saltus has been compared to Oscar Wilde for wit and language. His novels are entertaining, yet philosophical, exposing the vagaries of human…

Bunker Bean

Read by Joseph Tabler


Harry Leon Wilson


Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, bu…

Fables for the Frivolous

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Guy Wetmore Carryl


One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

Ring for Nancy: A Sheer Comedy

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Ford Madox Ford


Major Edward Brent Foster is on his way to a house in the country to stay with his aunt and uncle. So are his fiancée Olympia Peabody…

Tartarin of Tarascon

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Alphonse Daudet


The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures a…

Ghetto Comedies

Read by Anthony Ogus


Israel Zangwill


A series of tales, poignant as well as comic, set in the Jewish East End of London by the writer known as the "Dickens of the ghetto&qu…

The Egregious English

Read by David Wales


T. W. H. Crosland


This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by s…

A New Arrival

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George Washington Cable


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A New Arrival by George W. Cable. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.…

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