Humor (Fiction)

A Family of Noblemen

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Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin


Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs,…

Mortal Coils

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Aldous Huxley


Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories an…

The Old Debauchees

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Henry Fielding


Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other chara…

Phantasmagoria and other poems

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Lewis Carroll


This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual appro…

Remarks

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Bill Nye


"The range of subjects treated in this book is wonderful, even to me. It is a library of universal knowledge, and the facts contained i…

Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

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H. G. Wells


Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of t…

A Bayard from Bengal

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F. Anstey


The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manne…

Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor

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Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley


"What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they e…

Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

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Heywood Broun


This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, suc…

Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacie

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Thomas Lodge


This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high…

Gigolo

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Edna Ferber


Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…

Behind the Beyond

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Stephen Leacock


A collection containing a parody on Problem Plays, as well as humorous anecdotes from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia…

The Prodigal Village; A Christmas Tale

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Irving Bacheller


Small town life in early twentieth century New York state. This is a piquant parable of human nature. Bacheller's lightly humorous voice is …

The Talking Horse And Other Stories

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F. Anstey


A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range …

Shakspere: Personal Recollections

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John A. Joyce


A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…

Something Childish, but very Natural

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Something Childish, but very Natural by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry p…

The College Freshman's Don't Book

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George Fullerton Evans


A short, humorous guide of what not to do in your first year of college. (Summary by Jill Engle)

Charley's Aunt

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Brandon Thomas


The girlfriends are coming to visit the chaps at college, but of course they can't stay unless there is a proper chaperone. So what could be…

In Pawn

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Ellis Parker Butler


Inspired by "Lives of the Saints", fat, lazy, good-for-nothing Harvey Redding decides to give up the junk-collecting business, and…

Meet Mr. Mulliner

Read by James Hutchisson


P. G. Wodehouse


A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson

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