Humor audiobooks
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a children's novel written by Mark Twain. Finn, a teen boy on his way to escape from his abusive father encounters with a runaway slave Jim. They unite together to fight for their survival in this cruel world. Though Twain originally intended this to be sequel to his earlier work "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", it..
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors
by Mark Twain1601 Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors is a short risqué squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a conversation between El..
Chapters from my Autobiography
by Mark TwainThe Autobiography of Mark Twain refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark Twain's life and left in typescript and manuscript at his death. The Autobiography comprises a rambling collection of anecdotes and ruminations rather than a conventional autobiography. Twain never com..
A Dog's Tale
by Mark TwainA Dog's Tale is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers. The book is tol..
Extracts from Adam's Diary
by Mark TwainExtracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms. is a comic short story by the American humorist and writer Mark Twain. It was first published as a book in 1904, by Harper & Bros. with numerous illustrations by Frederick Strothmann. The story was first published in 1893, The Niagara Book (Buffalo: Underhill and Nichols), pp. 93–109...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
by Mark TwainCaptain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven is a short story written by American writer Mark Twain. It first appeared in print in Harper's Magazine in December 1907 and January 1908, and was published in book form with some revisions in 1909. This was the last story published by Twain during his life...
Essays on Paul Bourget
by Mark TwainA collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget".He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? And when an alien observer tur..
An Ideal Husband
by Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband explores the morality in politics and public life. Lady Chiltern is proudly thinking, she married an Ideal Husband Sir Robert Chiltern, a politican with clean image. Chilton's classmate Mrs. Cheveley blackmails Robert with a solid proof that he leaked a secret governmet record for financial gains. Though his fa..