Humor Classics

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...

Spöttisch, aber liebevoll geht Ludwig Thoma mit den Schwächen der grantelnden Mitbürger aus seiner bayerischen Heimat um. Mit Musik von Ludwig van Beethoven.

Diese von Claus Obalski launig vorgetragenen Erzählungen Thomas bewegen sich keineswegs auf den Pfaden bürgerlicher Gefühlsseligkeit, sondern vielmehr um bäuerliche Liebespaare. Thoma wäre nicht Thoma, wenn er dabei nicht satirisch aufspiessen wü,rde, wie völlig nüchtern, gänzlich unromantisch das Zueinanderfinden der Geschlechter auf dem Lande von statten geht.

Jeeves and Wooster return! In this collection of short stories, P.G. Wodehouse - the Master of British Comedy - puts his affable but daffy protagonist Bertie Wooster through the wringer time and again, only to be saved (usually in the nick of time) by his trusty manservant Jeeves. Featuring such favorites from the series as Bingo Little, Aunt Agatha, and the chaotic twins Eustace and Claude, The Inimitable Jeeves brings Bertie to America and back as he attempts to assist is friend Bingo to finally tie the knot.

A classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman - in which Bertie's terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (including the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks). And Bertie, with Jeeves's help, hopes to evade the clutches of the terrifying Honoria Glossop.... At its heart is one of Wodehouse's most delicious stories, The Great Sermon Handicap.

Was machen drei junge, hypochondrische Freunde samt einem neurotischen Foxterrier, wenn sie dem Wetter entfliehen wollen und wilde Abenteuer suchen? Sie packen Blazer, Hut und Schlips ein und fahren in einem Ruderboot auf der Themse in die Wildnis hinauf. Doch sie haben den Büchsenöffner vergessen, die Zahnbürste ist unauffindbar, und wenn sie einem Schild begegnen, auf dem steht "Achtung! Gefahr! Nicht hier entlang!", dann steuern sie schnurstracks in ihr Verderben.

Penrod, Booth Tarkington's classic and hilarious tale of one 11-year-old boy's unceasing series of misadventures in an early 20th-century Midwestern town, has fallen into disrepute in some quarters for ethnic descriptions and dialogue that many today find offensive. Lasso Books has taken the bold step of abridging the original text and removing questionable passages and rewriting select portions so that children and adults may now read this delightful novel without the insensitivities of the past that many found objectionable.

Another of Mark Twain's best-selling yarns of skullduggery and mischief. Set in the deep South, Pudd'nhead Wilson is the central character as an attorney who solves a murder mystery and lays bare the wicked deeds of a larger-than-life ensemble of personalities in his own wry and peculiar way.

Hell's too full, so the Devil hires ad man Dirk Quigby to pen a travel guide enticing travelers to different afterlives: Hindu, Catholic, Protestant (that one's got a lot of subdivisions), Scientologist, and more. Instead of writing a boffo best seller, Dirk unites all religions in a common goal: kill Dirk. E. E. King grew up in one of those tolerant households that don't force religion down kids' throats. This is the result.

A wonderfully amusing account of the escapades of a naïve student at Oxford, c. 1850.

I gjennombruddsromanen sin, Dagdrivergjengen, beskriver Steinbeck med overdådig humor og stor innlevelse de såkalte paisanoenes omflakkende og ubekymrede landstrykerliv. Disse californiske vagabondene er etterkommerne av den gamle befolkningen – spanjoler, indianere og mexicanere. De er ikke styrt av materielle goder, men lever fra dag til dag som ekte livsnytere, konstant opptatt av å skaffe den neste gallonen vin eller gjøre erobringer blant damene som krysser deres vei.

A unique work of wit, humor, and insight about men, women, and the goings-on of life, including memory and more, from the author of Three Men in a Boat and the sequel, Three Men on a Bummel or Wandering.

Tells the story of the married life of Nevis Falconer, a young woman novelist, and Simon Quinn. Temperamentally unsuited, they live this superficial existence for three years, until one day Nevis meets Marcus Chard, her American publisher, who has just arrived in London. Soon friendship develops into love. Nevis finds herself caught in a whirl of circumstances over which she has no control.

Ebenezer Scrooge - and his faithful greyhound, Carl - are visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. What follows is the story you know, but with a twist. With faithful Carl by his side, Scrooge experiences the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, taking away a lesson that will forever change his - and Carl’s - life forever.

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, who is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee' vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th century industrial inventions.

An early 20th Century tale about a booster & businessman who followed the standard program, deviated, and wished his son well in going his own way.

Volume Audiobooks presenta l'audiolibro "Fantozzi", dal libro capolavoro di Paolo Villaggio del 1971, letto e interpretato magistralmente dallo stesso autore Paolo Villaggio. Uno dei più grandi best seller italiani di sempre, che ha dato origine alla saga della maschera comica più popolare del cinema italiano, in versione aggiornata e con l'aggiunta di capitoli inediti.