Category Archives: Humor

Audiobook: Prefect’s Uncle

The action of the novel takes place at the fictional “Beckford College”, a private school

Audiobook: Idiot at home

The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move

Audiobook: Bertrams

This is a massive effort, taking place in England and the Middle East, with a

Audiobook: Half-Hours with the Idiot

Mr Idiot returns with his opinions on a number of diverse topics, including women, taxation,

Audiobook: Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour

Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the

Audiobook: Parodies on Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade

This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1,

Audiobook: Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation)

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes,

Audiobook: Prodigal Village; A Christmas Tale

Small town life in early twentieth century New York state. This is a piquant parable

Audiobook: Rainy Week (Version 2)

A couple invite people of different walks of life to their cottage along the beach,

Audiobook: Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation)

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes,

Audiobook: Nye and Riley’s Wit and Humor

“What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison

Audiobook: Inimitable Jeeves

When either Bertie Wooster or his friends found themselves in the soup or in dangerous

Audiobook: Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter

Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full

Audiobook: Baron Trump’s Marvellous Underground Journey

The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have

Audiobook: Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation)

A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a

Audiobook: Moods

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass

Audiobook: Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War

Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under

Audiobook: Egregious English

This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor

Audiobook: Giant’s Robe

Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter’s Public School for boys, although he

Audiobook: Problem Club

The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss

Audiobook: 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

Audiobook: Diaries of Adam and Eve

Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, ‘translated them from the

Audiobook: Bunker Bean

Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the

Audiobook: Fresh Every Hour

This book is best described by its subtitle: “DETAILING the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of

Audiobook: Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation

As the title suggests we are treated to three humourous and curious psychical transpositions in

Audiobook: Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman’s ”Leaves o’ Grass”

There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings.

Audiobook: Piccadilly Jim (version 2)

Jimmy “Piccadilly Jim” Crocker returns to New York to repair his reputation and pursue his

Audiobook: Pothunters

The Pothunters was popular British humorist P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse’s first published book. It

Audiobook: Beasley’s Christmas Party

A melodramatic folksy Christmas story, a little like Dickens – with a Tiny Tim, but

Audiobook: Curious Quest

A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun