Humor

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09

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H. G. Wells



The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the ninth volume, 37 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors…

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

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Stephen Leacock



Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

The Fiddler of Dooney

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William Butler Yeats



LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Decembe…

A Long November: A Tale of Christmas Come Too Early

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Blake M. Petit



Duncan Marks is just like you -- sick and tired of Christmask before the Thanksgiving turkey even comes out of the oven. But this year, a Sp…

The Wonderful World of Linus Bailey

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Peter James Lamb



Linus Bailey's tenth birthday, if measured on some kind of “So how did it go then?” scale, would score a one. Maybe a bit less. It started…

Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri

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William James Mcglothlin



Apollonius of Tyre is the subject of an ancient short novella, popular during medieval times. Existing in numerous forms in many languages, …

The Old Man and the Ass

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Jean de la Fontaine



LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the t…

The Jingle Book

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Carolyn Wells



A collection of silly poetry and limericks for children.

Some Articles About Mark Twain

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Sarah Knowles Bolton, Charles Hopkins Clark, William M. Clemens and Edmund Yates



"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Pub…

One Third Off

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Irvin S. Cobb



Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876–March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and wrote over 60…

Love-Songs of Childhood

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Eugene Field



This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics f…

Satires and Profanities

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George William Foote



"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought,…

Sunbeams

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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…

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