Humor

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,…

The Bent Twig

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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…

Coffee and Repartee

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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 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…

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…

The Innocents Abroad (version 2)

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Mark Twain


Samuel L. Clemens' (Mark Twain) journey to Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. Reportedly his best selling book.

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 …

The Peterkin Papers

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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 Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson


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…

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…

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 …

Uit het leven van Dik Trom

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Cornelis Johannes Kieviet


Dit is het eerste van zes boeken over Dik Trom, een ondeugende, dikke jongen, waarvan zijn vader altijd zegt: “Het is een bijzonder kind, en…

Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


This warm, affectionate duet of essays by two of the early twentieth century's most popular writers is a bit dated but still entertaining. …

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…

The Chaos

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Gerald Nolst Trenité


"The Chaos" is a poem which demonstrates the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation, written by Gerard Nolst Trenit&ea…

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…

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…

Gulliver’s Reizen

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Jonathan Swift


Gulliver's reizen is een satirisch boek uit 1726 van de Ierse schrijver Jonathan Swift. Het oorspronkelijke boek bevatte vier reisbeschrijvi…

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