Humorous Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Sea Lady (Version 2)

A mermaid contrives to have herself «rescued from drowning» and adopted by a respectable family on the English coast. Her motive, which she conceals for quite a while, is to win the heart of a handsome but...

Thomas A. Copeland 4 hours 35 minutes

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading)

In order to escape his cruel father, and led by a thirst for adventure, Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped slave. But trouble is never far behind them, and their adventures are only...

11 hours 54 minutes

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Family Life

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Sabine Baring-Gould - Pennycomequicks

The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scarred and battered by human and Divine tragedy, struggling for sustenance of...

Michael Reuss 16 hours 40 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Louis Napoleon Parker - Pomander Walk

Pomander Walk is a unique street in London, and in this humorous novel we meet the unusual residents. It was originally produced as a stage play and includes lively dialog. — Summary by Lynne Thompson

Lynne T and 2 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Oliver Onions - Compleat Bachelor

George Oliver Onions (1873 – 1961) was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historical fiction and romance novels. This social comedy of late...

David Wales 3 hours 28 minutes

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Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1

Humorous Fiction

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Thomas Lansing Masson - Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1

Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...

Joe Selah and 21 more 4 hours 38 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Oscar Wilde - Canterville Ghost (version 2)

A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expect twists and turns to make it interesting. In this cast the crusty old ghost...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 20 minutes

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Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe

Humorous Fiction

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Thomas Hood - Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe by Thomas Hood. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 4, 2015. Thomas Hood was a British...

Ahmad Abdullah and 8 more 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Thomas A. Janvier - Uncle Of An Angel

In what I have read so far this book appears to be a humorous character study on two levels. That between the uncle and niece and that of polite society in the 19th century. Anything can happen. I for one want to find...

Susan Morin 1 hour 57 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Henri Murger - Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped the later romanticized image of the bohemian artist: independent, insouciant, exuberantly...

Expatriate 9 hours 59 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Phineas Fletcher - Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises

While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid . The poem is an epyllion like...

32 minutes

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Family Life

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Ada Leverson - Tenterhooks

The second of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, an Edwardian comedy of manners. Several years have passed since the events in 'Love's Shadow', but Bruce Ottley is as difficult and irksome as ever. His beautiful wife Edith...

Helen Taylor 5 hours 30 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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