Humorous Fiction
339 books
Humorous Fiction
634
G. K. Chesterton - What's Wrong With the World
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first...
7 hours 5 minutes
Humorous Fiction
482
Mark Twain - Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the collection The Man...
13 hours 4 minutes
Humorous Fiction
475
L. A. Abbott - Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac
This work the author claims is indeed a true story of how he happened to be married seven times to seven different women and the rollicking, hilarious events that led (or stumbled) to the marriages and the...
3 hours 53 minutes
General Fiction
572
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 3)
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature — “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...
10 hours 46 minutes
Humorous Fiction
506
Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
«Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven» is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental...
1 hour 28 minutes
