Humor (Fiction)
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
Read by Kevin LaVergne
Mark Twain
"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story fol…
More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Read by Mark F. Smith
Frank Gelett Burgess
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…
Святочные рассказы
Read by Mark Chulsky
Nikolai Leskov
Николай Семёнович Лесков, русский писатель и публицист, из-за своих оригинальных и принципиальных взглядов был не принят по достоинству в ли…
Miss Marjoribanks
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Margaret O. Oliphant
One of the so-called "Chronicles of Carlingford", of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 …
Fables in Slang
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
George Ade
While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables i…
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3)
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long co…
Perfect Behavior
Read by Samanem
Donald Ogden Stewart
A humorous guide to manners and etiquette for ladies and gentlemen in a social "crises," published in 1922. (Introduction by Saman…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Göteborgsflickor
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Sigge Strömberg
Sigge Strömberg, född som Sigfrid Strömberg 22 december 1885 i Göteborg, död 3 mars 1920, svensk författare oc…
Is He Popenjoy ?
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Anthony Trollope
Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…
Love Insurance
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Earl Derr Biggers
A young man came to Lloyds of London. He knew they took out policies on unusual risks... And what he wanted was love insurance. What follows…
Winter (Shakespeare)
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Winter by William Shakespeare. This poem is from "Love's Labour's Lost". This was t…
Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who…
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Irwin Leslie Gordon
A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. -- S. McGaughey From the Introduction, "The editor begs leave to in…
Kathleen
Read by KirksVoice
Christopher Morley
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of…
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1
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Variousandthomas Lansing Masson
Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…
The Peterkin Papers
Read by entada
Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. Th…
The Bent Twig
Read by Bellona Times
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…
Zuleika Dobson
Read by Termin Dyan
Max Beerbohm
A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the …
Coffee and Repartee
Read by Daryl Wor
John Kendrick Bangs
First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemen's boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here …
Love and Mr Lewisham
Read by Anthony Ogus
H. G. Wells
The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H. G. Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, show…