Humorous Fiction
339 books
Humorous Fiction
390
Mark Twain - Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4)
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived...
1 hour 35 minutes
Humorous Fiction
865
H. G. Wells - Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to...
2 hours 14 minutes
Humorous Fiction
439
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