Category Archives: Humorous Fiction
The Old Maids’ Club
Author(s): Israel Zangwill Mathematics vs. poetry: Brainy and beautiful 17-year-old Lillie, determined to never marry,...
The Prodigal Village; A Christmas Tale
Author(s): Irving Bacheller Small town life in early twentieth century New York state. This is...
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
Author(s): Charles Dickens The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and...
The Return of Don Quixote
Author(s): G. K. Chesterton The mirthful story of a Don Quixote who, riding into a...
The Idiot at home
Author(s): John Kendrick Bangs The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children,...
The Pennycomequicks
Author(s): Sabine Baring-Gould The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English...
The Regent
Author(s): Arnold Bennett ‘The Regent’ is, if not a sequel to ‘The Card’, then a...
The Offshore Pirate
Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald’s...
The Princess Priscilla’s Fortnight
Author(s): Elizabeth von Arnim The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and...
The Prince and Betty
Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse The Prince and Betty is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse....
The Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading)
Author(s): John Kendrick Bangs “It was before the Idiot’s marriage, and in the days when...
The New Swiss Family Robinson
Author(s): Owen Wister A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by...
The Crock of Gold
Author(s): James Stephens This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a...
The Girl on the Boat
Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse Also published as “Three Men and a Maid”. The maid of...
The Diary of a Nobody
Author(s): George GrossmithWeedon Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen...
The Cave On Thunder Cloud
Author(s): Mary Roberts Rinehart Tish Carberry reluctantly takes her two best friends, Aggie and Lizzie,...
The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men
Author(s): Max Beerbohm Sir Henry Maximilian “Max” Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist....
The Giant’s Robe
Author(s): F. Anstey Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter’s Public School for...
The Book of Snobs
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and...
The Chaucer Storybook
Author(s): Eva March TappanGeoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic “Canterbury Tales” has here been rendered into...
The Duke in the Suburbs
Author(s): Edgar Wallace “The Duke in the Suburbs” by Edgar Wallace is a novel written...
The Foolish Dictionary
Author(s): Charles Wayland Towne “The Foolish Dictionary” was written by “Gideon Wurdz” (the pen name...
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War
Author(s): Artemus Ward Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer...
The Genial Idiot
Author(s): John Kendrick Bangs John Kendrick Bangs once again takes us on a journey with...
The Best Nonsense Verses
Author(s): Josephine Daskam Bacon From Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky to limericks written by Anonymous, some of...
The Diamond Cross Mystery
Author(s): Chester K. Steele Colonel Ashley is confronted with a difficult case: The proprietor of...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2)
Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by...
The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Author(s): Mark Twain Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, ‘translated...
The Cheerful Smugglers
Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler Saving for the baby’s education: how can a young family be...
The Clicking of Cuthbert
Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse Join the Oldest Member…whether you like it or not…and be carried...