Humorous Fiction
339 books
Humorous Fiction
454
Earl Derr Biggers - Love Insurance (version 2)
On duty with Lloyds of London in NYC, young Richard Minot is sent to the St Augustine-ish town of San Marco to ensure that a wealthy young lady, Cynthia Meyrick marry his firm's client, Lord Harrowby. Then, in a...
7 hours 31 minutes
Humorous Fiction
496
Artemus Ward - Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a...
1 hour 53 minutes
Humorous Fiction
479
Leopold Wagner - Humorous Readings and Recitations
Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important ways of sharing new works with the public or attracting public attention to...
7 hours 42 minutes
Humorous Fiction
500
Unknown - Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)
A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote . Rendered homeless by the arrest of his...
1 hour 34 minutes
Humorous Fiction
508
Ingersoll Lockwood - Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have already braved many adventures together, but at the time our story opens, they are kind of dull at home, upset with the increasing familiarity...
6 hours 23 minutes
Humorous Fiction
493
Edwin Abbott Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)
This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the protagonist, known simply as «A Square», to deride the Victorian aristocracy and...
4 hours 31 minutes
Humorous Fiction
438
Montague Glass - Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter
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 Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment...
8 hours 30 minutes
