Humor

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F. Anstey


Set in Victorian times, the novel concerns business man Paul Bultitude and his son Dick. Dick is about to leave home for a boarding school w…

English as She is Spoke

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Pedro Carolino


English as She is Spoke is a 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrasebook that has become a classic of absurdist humor, owing chiefly to th…

Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors

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Christopher Gronlund


When Michael O'Brien and his father, James, buy a new car just in time for the family's summer vacation, James signs over more than the titl…

The Book of Snobs

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William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

The World Is Badly Made

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Thomas Corfield


When the palace of Arabesque’s aide d’camp, a cat named the Tremblees, stumbles upon a translation of an ancient language that reveals the e…

Casey at the Bat

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Ernest Lawrence Thayer


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Decemb…

You Never Miss the Dopamine (until the brain runs dry)

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Bill Schmalfeldt


He's quickly becoming the Lewis Black of Parkinson's Disease. In a series of hilarious essays, Bill Schmalfeldt (author of "No Doorwa…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 author…

The Hunting of the Snark (version 2)

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Lewis Carroll


The Hunting of the Snark is a long nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll describing the adventures of ten weirdly assorted characters as they pursu…

The Alchemists Of Vra

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Thomas Corfield


Consider a world inhabited with only cats and dogs: a society recognizable as our own, but with its eccentricities being the norm, rather th…

Five O'Clock Tea

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William Dean Howells


A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03

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H. G. Wells


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors…

Physiologie du jour de l'an

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Louis Couailhac


Premier de l'an, jour si triste pour les uns, si beau pour les autres, je vais essayer d'esquisser ta physionomie ; et je te traiterai aussi…

The Witches of New York

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Q. K. Philander Doesticks


A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Phi…

Seeing Things at Night

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Heywood Broun


This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

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Edward Eggleston


"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv of…

Nonsense Novels

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Stephen Leacock


Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

The Purging Of Ruen

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Thomas Corfield


When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, Oscar Teabag-Dooven discovers it’s on the br…

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