Humor
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Innocents Abroad (version 2)
Read by bscottholmes
Mark Twain
Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain) journey to Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. Reportedly his best selling book.
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
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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…
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…
The Westminster Alice
Read by Ruth Golding
Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
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…
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 …
The Female Quixote Vol. 2
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Charlotte Lennox
Second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mi…
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Mark Twain
The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…
The Tale of Cuffy Bear
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Arthur Scott Bailey
A whimsical tale about the life of Cuffy bear on Blue Mountain. Cuffy is a very mischievous, disobedient bear who gets into all kinds of scr…
A Brief Conversation with My Hair
Read by Russell Bradbury-Carlin
Russell Bradbury-Carlin
A Brief Conversation with My Hair is a collection of short literary humor pieces that have been previously featured on such websites at McSw…
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
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Mark Twain
Please note: this recording contains strong language."1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes …
Over The Plum Pudding
Read by David Wales
John Kendrick Bangs
Great Caesar’s ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories – some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three -- twelve of the…
Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2)
Read by Terra Mendoza
Jerome K. Jerome
Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog, are back. In this funny sequel to Three Men in a Boat J., George, and Harri…