Humor Classics

Award-winning narrator and AudioFile Golden Voice Simon Jones revives the classic pairing of Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves in this dazzling new recording of Right Ho, Jeeves. Straight from his role in the eagerly anticipated Downton Abbey movie, Simon brings the charming, wacky world of everyone’s favorite bumbling aristocrat, Bertie Wooster, and his brilliant, long-suffering manservant, Jeeves, to sparkling new life.

A hilarious romp from start to finish, with a lord and his man having a rollicking good time with subtlety of all kinds.

The infamous Bertie Wooster, rebuffing the assistance of his trusty manservant Jeeves, attempts to help his old chum and newt-fancier Gussie Fink-Nottle win the affections of the goofy but adorable Madeline Bassett. But without Jeeves to lend a hand, chaos ensues, and Bertie finds himself accidentally - and horribly - engaged to Madeline himself.

Plucky and romantic Alice tries to rise above the crudities of her hopelessly shabby background in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about ambition and self-delusion. The lower-middle class Adams family faces a slow disintegration in a small Midwestern town. Alice, a social climber, is ashamed of her unsuccessful family and determined to distinguish herself.

Entranced by romantic tales of heroism and chivalry, Don Quixote—self-proclaimed knight errant—embarks on a delusional quest for fame and adventure. The eccentric Spanish country gentleman and his companion Sancho encounter an array of unforgettable characters and undertake some of the most famously foolhardy exploits in literature. Listeners will delight in following their chivalrous misadventures to right wrongs and punish evil in this timeless, laugh-out-loud tale.

The acclaimed author of Happy All the Time charts the story of a whirlwind love affair of two people who are happily married (just not to each other)—from its fabulous inception to its inevitable end. "Virtually flawless. . . . A tour de force." —Los Angeles Times Billy and Francis...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kailash comes under the indelible influence of a charismatic...

***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK*** ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*** ***PWs Best of the Year 2014*** The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai. ...

Ten classic stories from Mark Twain.

Horror, Humor, and Heroes is a collection of twelve short stories, one novella, and a preview for my next novel that should contain enough variety to entertain you readers. Sample some of my finest offerings, such as - a guardian wolf fearing the coming of man, a producer willing to do anything to bring the first pay per view live werewolf hunt to the world, and a zombie running for congress.

The perhaps greatest and most extensive collection of humor ever published.

La locandiera è una commedia scritta da Carlo Goldoni nel 1751. La storia si incentra sulle vicende di Mirandolina, un'attraente e astuta giovane donna che gestisce a Firenze, con l'aiuto del suo cameriere Fabrizio, una locanda ereditata dal padre. Personaggi: Il Cavaliere di Ripafratta - Filippo Gioachin, Il Marchese di Forlipopoli - Roberto Cofini, Il Conte d'Albafiorita - Algy Pug, Mirandolina, locandiera - Dolcinea, Ortensia, comica - piccolamimi, Dejanira, comica - Maria Grazia Tundo, Fabrizio, cameriere di locanda - Riccardo Fasol, Servitore, del Cavaliere - River80.

Jean Pauls meisterhafter komischer Roman berichtet vom Schicksal des Armenadvokaten Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkäs. Um seiner Ehe mit der Putzmacherin Lenette Egelkraut eine wirtschaftliche Basis zu verleihen verlangt Siebenkäs von seinem Vormund, dem "Heimlicher§ v. Blaise, die Auszahlung einer mütterlichen Erbschaft - vergeblich. Das Paar lebt vorerst von einem Geldgeschenk des Heinrich Leibgeber, Siebenkäses engstem Freund, der ihm äußerlich wie innerlich gleicht.

Юмористические рассказы и сатирические фельетоны Михаила Булгакова - это остроумные зарисовки столичной жизни в разгар нэпа, блистательно-глумливое изображение "нового советского быта" и "разрухи в головах", живые и веселые житейские истории.

Thirty years after his death, Capt. Stormfield is still speeding across the universe, on his way to the next life, though he doesn't know yet where or when his journey will end. It's not a spoiler to tell you that he does get into heaven (it's in the title after all), but you may be surprised at some of the customs, characters, and spectacles he finds there.

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and Renaissance humanist. Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about an imaginary island society and its religious, social, and political customs. While imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534, he wrote A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation. It is a fictional dialogue focusing on the comfort of God in distress, the benefits of suffering, atonement for evil acts, faintheartedness and the temptation to suicide.

This collection of fourteen reimagined Grimm's fairy tales from award-winning author Mark Russell offers a biting new perspective while proving the classics never go out of style. In the two hundred years since Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first published their collection of fairy tales, things...

Vier Klassiker des Humors geben sich die Ehre...

Wilhelm Buschs berühmte Bildergeschichte, voll doppelbödigem Humor als vergnügliches, aufwändig produziertes Hörspiel.

Impressionen von unterwegs. Lästereien des Europäers Kurt Tucholsky über Reisende...