Humor (Fiction)

The Silly Syclopedia

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Noah Lott and George V. Hobart



A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for HILARIOUS PURPOSES ONLY Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing C…

Stupidity

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Amy Lowell



LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Stupidity by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31st, 2010.

Der heilige Bürokrazius

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Rudolf Greinz



Eine heitere Legende - Summary by Projekt Gutenberg

Petticoat Government, Volume 1

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Frances Milton Trollope



The lives and intrigues of the Jenkyns family and their neighbors, in the cathedral town of Westhampton, 1825. - Summary by Mark Leder

Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas

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F. Anstey



F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…

Kilo: Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent

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Ellis Parker Butler



Traveling salesman Eliph' Hewlitt finds the love of his life in Kilo, Iowa and decides to settle down there. - Summary by Dale Barkley

Tall Tales from Texas

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Mody Coggin Boatright



Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …

The Owl Critic

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James Thomas Fields



LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Owl Critic by James T. Fields. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 3, 2011.…

The Flatting-Mill

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William Cowper



LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Flatting-Mill by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 1, 2011.…

One Day's Courtship and The Heralds of Fame

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Robert Barr



Robert Barr approaches romance in two short stories in his engaging and subtly humorous style.In One Day's Courtship, British artist John Tr…

Skiddoo!

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Hugh Mchugh and George V. Hobart



John Henry is quite a character! King of the "Beloved of the Short Arm Jab". John Henry has his own unique perspective on the even…

Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian

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Unknown



This is a wonderful compilation of stories that serve to paint a vivid and beautiful image of the Native American figure. The exploration o…

Maarten Chuzzlewit

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Charles Dickens



De familie Chuzzlewit is op jacht naar de erfenis van de oude Maarten Chuzzlewit. De kleinzoon, Martin Chuzzlewit, heeft daarnaast ook zijn …

Off-Hand Sketches

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T. S. Arthur



The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at…

A Parody Outline of History

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Donald Ogden Stewart



" Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in …

Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family

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B. P. Shillaber



Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the "inappropriat…

Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures

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Montague Glass



Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York P…

The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales

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Richard Connell



Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post.

Making over Martha

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Julie M. Lippmann



The sequel to Martha-by-the-day. Despite others' wishes for Martha, that she rise above her station, she remains stoutly Martha, care-giver …

At The Sign of The Greedy Pig

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Charles S. Brooks



"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlemen…

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