Historical Humor Classics

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    • By: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him....

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    • or The Skeleton in the Cupboard
    • By: W. Somerset Maugham
    • Narrated by: Neil Hunt
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Of all Somerset Maugham’s novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet....

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    • A Study in Brimstone
    • By: G. S. Denning
    • Narrated by: Robert Garson
    • Series: Warlock Holmes, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,412 ratings
    • Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot.

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    • By: Henry James
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women"....

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    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Jerry Farden
    • Series: Cannery Row, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,448 ratings
    • Here is Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival....

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    • By: Voltaire
    • Narrated by: Jack Davenport
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,670 ratings
    • Candide, published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant best seller....

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    • By: Jessie Lewis
    • Narrated by: Arthur Rowan
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • A tempestuous acquaintance and disastrous marriage proposal makes it unlikely Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet will ever reconcile. Despairing of their own reunion, they attend with great energy to salvaging that of Darcy’s friend Mr. Bingley and Elizabeth’s sister Jane....

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    • By: Evelyn Waugh
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 24 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • This trilogy about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh's career....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America - an age of corruption....

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    • By: Erskine Caldwell
    • Narrated by: Mark Hammer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Earthy, raunchy and high spirited, this story of larkabout Jeeter Lester’s struggle to keep his farm is one of the most poignant and humorous in Depression-era literature and an American classic....

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    • By: Piers Anthony
    • Narrated by: Brett Barry
    • Series: Xanth, Book 40
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In Xanth, everyone has a talent. But that doesn't mean everyone loves his talent, and no one understands that better than Hapless. With the ability to conjure any instrument he wants....

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    • By: Jane Austen
    • Narrated by: Varios narradores
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • "Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran fortuna, necesita una esposa". Con esta frase comienza...

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    • A Thursday Next Novel, Book 3
    • By: Jasper Fforde
    • Narrated by: Emily Gray
    • Series: Thursday Next Novels, Book 3
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 817 ratings
    • Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment....

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    • By: E. Nesbit
    • Narrated by: Anne Hancock
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Orphaned cousins Jane and Lucilla, both 19, receive the exciting news that their guardian is at last allowing them to leave boarding school. But their rosy future is thwarted when they find he's made some bad investments and fled, leaving them with a cottage in the English countryside....

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    • By: William Melvin Kelley
    • Narrated by: Jay Smooth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • June 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child....

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • Despite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley....

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    • By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Regarded as the first great masterpiece of Russian literature, Dead Souls mixes realism and symbolism for a vivid and highly original portrait of Russian life....

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