Historical Humor

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    • Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • “There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate,” he wrote. “When he can’t afford it and when he can.” The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink....

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    • Barker & Llewelyn Series, Book 1
    • By: Will Thomas
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Series: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,235 ratings
    • An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn....

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    • By: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Joel Johnstone
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 773 ratings
    • In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy’s mishaps and adventures over the course of the 1967-68 school year in Long Island, New York....

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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 134 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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    • By: Thomas Pynchon
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 33 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story....

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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: Umberto Eco
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • As Constantinople is being pillaged and burned in April 1204, a young man, Baudolino, manages to save a historian and a high court official from certain death at the hands of crusading warriors....

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    • By: Peter Carey
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Percival Everett
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,304 ratings
    • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

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    • By: Maggie O'Farrell
    • Narrated by: Graham Rowat, Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 459 ratings
    • Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California....

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    • By: Antoine Laurain
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 378 ratings
    • Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Bonnie Garmus
    • Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35,356 ratings
    • Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

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    • Country Club Murders Series, Book 10
    • By: Julie Mulhern
    • Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
    • Series: Country Club Murders, Book 10
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • When Ellison Russell, reluctant finder of bodies, chairs a gala in conjunction with the museum's Chinese funerary exhibit, she expects disaster. So, she's not remotely surprised when a body turns up....

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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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    • By: Charles Portis
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book. It's the Codex Pappus—the sacred Gnomon text....

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    • By: Chuck Palahniuk
    • Narrated by: Carol Monda
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • For decades Hazie Coogan has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie” Kenton, veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III....

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