Humorous Fiction
339 books
Humorous Fiction
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation)
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire...
18 hours 58 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
439
John Kendrick Bangs - Half-Hours with the Idiot
Mr Idiot returns with his opinions on a number of diverse topics, including women, taxation, and international diplomacy. As always, the Idiot's silly soliloquies are packed with equal parts ridiculous fallacy and sly...
2 hours 10 minutes
Humorous Fiction
442
Finley Peter Dunne - Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin Dooley, «doctor of philosophy.» Mr. Dooley was a saloonkeeper with opinions...
4 hours 59 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
