Humorous Fiction
339 books
Humorous Fiction
530
C. J. Dennis - Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme
Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town,...
1 hour 21 minutes
Humorous Fiction
483
Walter Hamilton - Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade
This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade covers such topics as the Clergy, the Fairer Sex, Doctors, Engineers and...
1 hour 3 minutes
Family Life
451
Steele Rudd - Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection)
Chapters XV through XIX of «Our New Selection» «The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eight years he had been thinking of that trip, but something or other always came to prevent...
50 minutes
Humorous Fiction
444
Lewis Carroll - Hunting of the Snark (Version 3)
The Hunting of the Snark — «An Agony in 8 Fits» is typically categorized as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting,...
32 minutes
Humorous Fiction
424
Max Beerbohm - Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
Sir Henry Maximilian «Max» Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more...
1 hour 11 minutes
