Humor

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…

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 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 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

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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…

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 …

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 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…

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…

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…

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. …

Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2)

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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…

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…

Rootabaga Stories

Read by Betsie Bush


Carl Sandburg


Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a s…

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