Humor

Winsome Winnie

by Stephen Leacock Read by TriciaG 4.6
Winsome Winnie is a collection of eight whimsical tales penned by the renowned Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock. Each story offers a deligh…

How To Tell A Story, and Other Essays

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.7
The complete collection of works using this title. Other versions, including the Project Gutenberg version, have been radically shortened. M…

Once a Week

by A. A. Milne Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Once a Week is a delightful collection of short stories by A. A. Milne, the celebrated author of Winnie the Pooh. Originally published in th…

The Swoop!

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. I…

The Money Moon

by Jeffery Farnol Read by Jeffery Farnol 4.8
Rejected in love, the incredibly rich (but appropriately modest) George Bellew walks into a small English village populated with a cast of m…

Seventeen

by Booth Tarkington Read by Jonathan Burchard 4.5
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently sat…

Project Mastodon

by Clifford D. Simak Read by Phil Chenevert 4.1
Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time travel in his own unique way in this story. What if a group of guys did it on their own,…

Doctor Ox's Experiment

by Jules Verne Read by Alan Winterrowd 4
An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves a…

Soaked In Seaweed

by Stephen Leacock Read by Phil Chenevert 4.4
8 great spoofs of 'types' of fiction by the premier Canadian humorist Leacock, taken from his book Nonsense Novels. The title of each parody…

Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice

by James Branch Cabell Read by Mark Nelson 4.5
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice is a fantasy book by James Branch Cabell, which gained fame (or notoriety) shortly after its publication in 1919…

Ukridge

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched” is a classic saying that might well have been remembered by Ukridge. Ukridge is always …

Three Men in a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome Read by Nick Bulka 4.4
A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men are base…

The Bent Twig

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Read by Bellona Times 4.5
Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

Christmas at Thompson Hall

by Anthony Trollope Read by Arnold 4.4
In "Christmas at Thompson Hall," Anthony Trollope invites listeners into a charmingly chaotic holiday gathering where family dynam…

Emma

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance....As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and dif…

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

by Robert Smith Surtees Read by Kevin Green 4.7
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure …

Gentle Julia

by Booth Tarkington Read by Bellona Times 4.1
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkingt…

Our Mr. Wrenn

by Sinclair Lewis Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.5
"At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at…

Peggy Raymond's Way

by Harriet Lummis Smith Read by Daryl Wor 4.6
In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from…

The Bertrams

by Anthony Trollope Read by Arnold 4.5
This is a massive effort, taking place in England and the Middle East, with a cast of thousands... Well, not thousands, fortunately, but cer…

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