Humor
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 and Various And Thomas 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 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…
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 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…
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. …
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…
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…
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
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Mark Twain
A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)
Gulliver’s Reizen
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's reizen is een satirisch boek uit 1726 van de Ierse schrijver Jonathan Swift. Het oorspronkelijke boek bevatte vier reisbeschrijvi…