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Summary

Pure laughter, whether our own or others, makes us all feel more comfortable with the world and situations we find ourselves in.  Why something is funny is hard to say but we know that there are people who are funny and can say funny things.  It’s an immediate advantage for them. 
 
In this volume your hosts including Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, J M Barrie, O Henry and many others who range from the simply funny and the absurd to ….. well, other ways of funny. 
 
1 - Stories to Make You Laugh - An Introduction 
2 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
3 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
4 - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County by Mark Twain 
5 - The Mouse by Saki 
6 - How I Killed a Bear by Charles Dudley Warner 
7 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol 
8 - Luck by Mark Twain 
9 - My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock 
10 - The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde 
11 - The Ransom of Red Chief by O Henry 
12 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner 
13 - How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton 
14 - How To Tell A Story by Mark Twain 
15 - The Idiot's Journalism Scheme by John Kendrick Bangs 
16 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie 
17 - Lost in a London Fog by Louisa May Alcott 
18 - Revenge by Ambrose Bierce 
19 - John Mortonson's Funeral by Ambrose Bierce 
20 - The Death of a Government Clerk by Anton Chekhov 
21 - The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Alan Poe 
22 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain 
23 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Duration: about 9 hours (08:36:06)
Publishing date: 2024-08-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2024. Copyright Statment: —

• Humor
• Contemporary Fiction