Humorous Fiction

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Children's Fiction

489

Richmal Crompton - Just William

William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasing. The series of books is better known in the United Kingdom than in the U.S....

David Wales 5 hours 58 minutes

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Children's Fiction

593

Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus Returns

Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original «little boy» who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. As always Uncle Remus can be relied upon to provide funny and pointed insight into...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 56 minutes

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General Fiction

474

Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the tenth volume, 62 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Snapdragon and 13 more 6 hours 9 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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General Fiction

444

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - Molly Make-Believe (version 2)

Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends...

ashleighjane 2 hours 58 minutes

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General Fiction

451

Wit and Humor of America, Vol 09

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the ninth volume, 37 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Marty Kris and 8 more 4 hours 45 minutes Wit and Humor of America

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Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus

Humorous Fiction

483

Joel Chandler Harris - Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus

26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904 and cover a variety of humorous subjects from Adan and Eve (De Appile Tree)...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 36 minutes

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General Fiction

514

Anthony Trollope - Is He Popenjoy ?

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in «Doctor Thorne,» the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a...

Barry O'Neill and 11 more 20 hours 40 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

445

Thomas Dekker - Roaring Girl

The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is a fictionalized dramatization of the life of Mary Frith, known as «Moll...

2 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

486

F. Anstey - Black Poodle and Other Tales

This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)

Joyce Martin and 1 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

464

John Kendrick Bangs - Genial Idiot

John Kendrick Bangs once again takes us on a journey with the loveable, but somewhat self-opinionated and irritating Mr Idiot. (Summary by Michele Eaton)

Nigel Boydell and 6 more 3 hours 45 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

468

Irish Wit and Humor

Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th century Ireland. For some these may be poignant in addition to being humorous...

James E. Carson 5 hours 37 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

576

Barry Pain - If Winter Don't

Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'. We follow the professional and marital decline of long suffering (and loving it), Luke Sharper, as his marriage to...

Nigel Boydell 1 hour 55 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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