Humor (Fiction)
The Jingle Book
Read by Betsie Bush
Carolyn Wells
The Jingle Book by Carolyn Wells invites young listeners into a whimsical world filled with playful poetry and delightful limericks. This ch…
The Teacup Club
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Eliza Armstrong and Elisa Armstrong
The Teacup Club (For the Advancement of Woman) is formed when Dorothy decides to found an intellectual club of her own - to teach her fiance…
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven
Read by Phil Chenevert
Mark Twain
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long…
Sunbeams
Read by Arnold
George Wilbur Peck
George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, &qu…
Das Bombardement von Åbo
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Carl Spitteler
Dies ist eine leicht absurde Erzählung über das Bombardement der Finnischen Stadt Åbo durch die Briten, und wie es die Leben…
Satires and Profanities
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George William Foote
Satires and Profanities is a collection of sharp-witted essays and stories by George William Foote, a prominent figure in the realm of Freet…
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories
Read by Philip Martin
Cal Stewart
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories invites listeners into the whimsical world of Uncle Josh, a charming old country man whose humorous tales…
The Small Bachelor
Read by Zach Hoyt
P. G. Wodehouse
Set against a backdrop of Prohibition-era New York, The Small Bachelor is the story of a young man from the West who is trying to be an arti…
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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Stephen Leacock
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…
Dave Brings Home A Wife
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Steele Rudd
This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book "Back At Our Selection". The Synopsis…
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Andrew Lang
He is a witty parody of H. Rider Haggard's adventure novel She, crafted by Andrew Lang. This humorous take invites listeners into a world wh…
Mortal Coils
Read by Kirsten Wever
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…
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…
Gigolo
Read by Kirsten Wever
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…
Love and Freindship
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Jane Austen
Love and Freindship [sic] is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels…
Lines on The Mermaid Tavern
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John Keats
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines on The Mermaid Tavern by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August…
A Family of Noblemen
Read by Expatriate
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs,…
Bauerngeselchtes
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Adam Karrillon
Adam Karrillon (1853-1938) war Arzt und Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er durch seine Heimatromane aus dem Odenwald sowie durch Reiseerzä…
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
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Lewis Carroll
This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual appro…