Humor (Fiction)

Sam In The Suburbs

Read by Zach Hoyt


P. G. Wodehouse


A young and somewhat eccentric American named Sam Shotter is sent by his uncle, a wealthy businessman, to England to get him out of his hair…

Eliza

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…

Sockerpullor och Pepparkorn: Små bilder ur skånska folklifvet förr och nu

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Henrik Wranér


This is a collection of amusing anecdotes about quirky couples from a rural part of Scania, in the south of Sweden. Written by a man from th…

The Sorrows of a Show Girl

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Kenneth Mcgaffey


Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the un…

An Ideal Husband (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde


The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…

Trolley Folly

Read by Tom Penn


Henry Wallace Phillips


This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with…

The Stainless Steel Rat - the Novel

Read by Mark Nelson


Harry Harrison


James Bolivar diGriz alias Slippery Jim alias The Stainless Steel Rat. Interstellar con man, crook and thief. Bane of the elite law enforcem…

The One-Hoss Shay

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiec…

How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

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George Wilbur Peck


A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a wri…

Essays on Paul Bourget

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and &quo…

The Foolish Dictionary

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Charles Wayland Towne


"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…

Mary Broome

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Allan Monkhouse


Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…

The Idiot at home

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John Kendrick Bangs


The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are en…

The Bab Ballads

Read by Graham Redman


W. S. Gilbert


The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …

My Buried Treasure

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Richard Harding Davis


"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for t…

The Adventures of a Suburbanite

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Ellis Parker Butler


Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, t…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors…

The Steel Flea

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Nikolai Leskov


An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tell…

A Valentine

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Lewis Carroll


This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)

The Problem Club

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Barry Pain


The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…

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