Humor (Fiction)
The Priceless Pearl
Read by Nancy Halper
Alice Duer Miller
Pearl Leavitt is habitually fired from her New York City office jobs for being "too beautiful" and thereby causing all the men to …
Further Foolishness
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Stephen Leacock
Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the writte…
Tales of the Long Bow
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G. K. Chesterton
These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …
Miss Civilization
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Richard Harding Davis
Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a young woman who matches wits with three burglars attempting to rob her house. Thi…
Sam In The Suburbs
Read by Zach Hoyt
P. G. Wodehouse
A young and somewhat eccentric American named Sam Shotter is sent by his uncle, a wealthy businessman, to England to get him out of his hair…
The Inimitable Jeeves
Read by Mark Nelson
P. G. Wodehouse
Poor Bertie Wooster. His pals are always falling in love with the wrong girls, and he seems to always to be engaged to the wrong one himself…
Rhymed Receipts for Any Occasion
Read by Betsie Bush
Imogen Clark
In addition to being amusing, recipes written in a poetic form were easy to remember and used as learning tools for the young housekeeper. M…
The Place Beyond The Winds
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Harriet Theresa Comstock
Priscilla Glenn lives in Kenmore, a place which the Canadian Indians call "the in-place, the place beyond the winds". There are so…
A Deal With The Devil
Read by Angelique G. Campbell
Eden Phillpotts
A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantanke…
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (Selection)
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William James McGlothlin
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anon…
The School for Husbands
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Molière
In 1661 and 1662 Moliere presented the plays The School for Husbands (this one) and then The School for Wives. "The central situations …
Amusement Only
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Richard Marsh
This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)
Humorous Readings and Recitations
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Leopold Wagner
Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important wa…
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
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Stephen Leacock
"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follo…
Marge Askinforit
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Read by Daryl Wor
Christopher Morley
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…
An Ideal Husband (version 2)
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Oscar Wilde
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…
Eliza
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…
The Sorrows of a Show Girl
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Kenneth Mcgaffey
Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the un…
Trolley Folly
Read by Tom Penn
Henry Wallace Phillips
This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with…