Humor
- Witty Social Satire
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Witty Essays and Observations
- Classic Radio Comedies
- Humorous Dramas and Comedies
The Wit and Humor of America
The Wit and Humor of America is a delightful anthology that captures the essence of American wit through a collection of 55 short stories an…
Serve It Cold
Detective Jonny C. Speed’s life can’t get much better. He’s booked into the French Quarter’s most luxurious guesthouse, and his day job as …
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
"Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follo…
The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark is a long nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll describing the adventures of ten weirdly assorted characters as they pursu…
Essays and Literary Studies
Essays and Literary Studies presents a collection of insightful and humorous reflections from Stephen Leacock, a prominent Canadian humorist…
How to Tell a Story
In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, an…
A Long November
Duncan Marks is just like you -- sick and tired of Christmask before the Thanksgiving turkey even comes out of the oven. But this year, a Sp…
The World Is Badly Made
When the palace of Arabesque’s aide d’camp, a cat named the Tremblees, stumbles upon a translation of an ancient language that reveals the e…
The Inventions of the Idiot
"It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-clas…
Tales of the Long Bow
These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …
White Trash Land
Chuck Mitchell thought he had everything –a high powered job, a beautiful girlfriend, an exclusive condo on the Toronto waterfront, but the …
Lustige Geschichten
Humor, Ironie und leise Melancholie mischen sich in den Werken des großen Erzählers und Meisters der Kurzgeschichte Anton Pawlowi…
Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside
Please note: this recording contains strong language."1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes …
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Wash…
The Witches of New York
Step into the whimsical world of 19th-century New York, where the streets are alive with the chatter of fortune tellers, card readers, and e…
Lausbubengeschichten
Humorvoll berichtet der Schüler Ludwig von seinen Streichen wider Scheinheiligkeit und falsche Autorität in Bayern zur Zeit Kö…
Vice Versa
Set in Victorian times, the novel concerns business man Paul Bultitude and his son Dick. Dick is about to leave home for a boarding school w…
Pagan Papers
We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered m…
Irish Wit and Humor
Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th ce…
The Jumping Frog
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorio…