Humorous Fiction
339 books
General Fiction
451
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - White Linen Nurse (version 2)
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, on the eve of graduation, she couldn’t go on with the mask of artificiality and...
5 hours 15 minutes
General Fiction
427
Sinclair Lewis - Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
«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 a desk behind the stock-room. He was a meek little bachelor--a person of...
7 hours 41 minutes
Humorous Fiction
485
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2)
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a...
6 hours 24 minutes
Humorous Fiction
448
B. P. Shillaber - Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington and Others of the Family
Mrs. Partington, not unlike Mrs. Malaprop, is prone to using the wrong words when expressing her sentiments. However, the «inappropriate» word choices often cause one to look at a situation in a new way. (Introduction...
8 hours 21 minutes
Family Life
472
P. G. Wodehouse - Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope)
The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter...
8 hours 20 minutes
