Category: Comic novel
Something New audiobook
P. G. WODEHOUSE (1881 - 1975)
When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willing to pay $5000 to the person who can get it back for him. Discretion is necessary since Peters' daughter is engaged to Emsworth's son. Joan Valentine and Ashe Marson both decide to go after the reward—she as Aline Peter's ladies maid, and he as Mr. Peter's valet—and they all end up at Blandings Castle. Read more [...]
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
by Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.
The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over, to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages now seem Read more [...]
The Bab Ballads audiobook
by W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert developed his unique "topsy-turvy" style, where the humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd. The Ballads also reveal Gilbert's Read more [...]
The Diary of a Nobody (Audiobook)
by George Grossmith (1847-1912) and Weedon Grossmith (1852-1919).
The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be regarded as the first 'blog'; being a record of the simplicities and humiliations in the life of this mundane, but upright, city clerk, who had an incontestable faith that a record of his Read more [...]
Comic Tragedies (FULL Audio Book)
by Louisa May Alcott 1832-1888
Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember the elaborate plays which the March sisters loved to perform. This volume, published after Alcott's death, is a compilation of the real plays written by her and her sisters, which were fictionalized in Little Women. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw)
Cast:
Actor 1: Algy Pug
Actor 2: Marty Kris
Actor 3: Matthew Reece
Actor 4: Peter Bishop
Actor 5: John Steigerwald
Actor 6: Read more [...]