Humorous Fiction
339 books
Humorous Fiction
525
Charles Dickens - Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2)
Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens 6th novel, serially published in 1843 — 44. Irrespective of the fact that Dickens considered — «Chuzzlewit is in 100 points immeasurably the best of my stories»- it failed to resonate...
29 hours 53 minutes
Humorous Fiction
504
Cuey-na-Gael - Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language
Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that he would learn the Dutch language within a fortnight. On his return, he has to...
4 hours 59 minutes
Humorous Fiction
466
Mark Twain - Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays in Volume 1, many first appeared alone, in magazines or newspapers, before...
2 hours 40 minutes
Humorous Fiction
446
Joseph Crosby Lincoln - Cape Cod Stories
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized...
5 hours 47 minutes
General Fiction
521
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Cranford (version 2)
Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gossip and their romances as they face the challenges of dealing with new...
8 hours 54 minutes
General Fiction
411
St. John Emile Clavering Hankin - Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels
A collection of short and humorous one-act «sequels» to 14 major plays (many already in the Librivox catalog). Plays end too soon. They never show the whole of what I want to know. The curtain falls and I'm...
2 hours 54 minutes
