Humor audiobooks

The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

by P. G. Wodehouse

This collection of P. G. Wodehouse's short stories without his favorite characters Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster. The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories are usual themes of Wodehouse dealing with relationships, household pets, and sports. Notable stories are Crowned Heads, One Touch of Nature, The Romance of an Ugly Policeman, and the..

Lady Susan

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen created an unusual heroine among her other novels through her only epistolary novel Lady Susan. Looking to climb in the social ladder quickly, Lady Susan hunt for wealthy men as her partner. Ironically she not only looks pair for her, but also to her daughter Frederica Vernon. Jane austen fans might not like the lead character of this n..

The Wrong Box

by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wrong Box is a comedy novel co-authored by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Tontine, an infamous investment scheme collects investment from group of subscribers and the benefits passed on to the last survivor. This novel explores the life of such two members and the last survivors of a Tontine. The survivors being brothers, who would ..

A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare, compiled by Martin Clifton

by William Shakespeare

This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a man who seemed to know everything about human nature and as Orson Welles said ‘he speaks to everyone and we all claim him’. I know that..

Danger! and Other Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Danger! And Other Stories (1918) is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The collection's title story, "Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius", was written 18 months before the outbreak of World War I and first published in the Strand Magazine in July 1914. It depicts an imaginary country in Europe fighting - an..

The Wheels of Chance

by H. G. Wells

The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll is comic novel written by H. G. Wells. Wheels are the best invention by mankind, and the bicycle turned out to another milestone. The novel narrates the holiday travel of Protagonist Mr. Hoopdriver on his ancient bicycle. Somehow this novel resembling the work of Three men in a boat, narrating the protagonist..

Doctor Ox's Experiment

by Jules Verne

Dr. Ox's Experiment is a short story by the French writer and pioneer of science-fiction, Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a novel gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town of Quiquendone. As the town bore no charges, ..

A Tangled Tale

by Lewis Carroll

A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll, published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives t..