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2011-11-29
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The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

Various

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): literature (1956), fiction (1588), romance (1066), adventure (1013), philosophy (970), short stories (702), humor (642), satire (292)

Group: Wit and Humor of America

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Daniel Come to Judgment, A Edmund Vance Cooke Etext Snapdragon
 00:01:30 en
Play 02 Table Manners James Montgomery Flagg Etext Snapdragon
 00:00:51 en
Play 03 Girl and the Julep, The Emerson Hough Etext Bev J Stevens
 00:54:00 en
Play 04 Final Choice, The Edmund Vance Cooke Etext Snapdragon
 00:01:49 en
Play 05 Hon. Ramsom Peabody George Ade Etext Bill Mosley
 00:12:57 en
Play 06 Nothing to Wear William Allen Butler Etext Bob Gonzalez
 00:20:35 en
Play 07 Branch Library, A James Montgomery Flagg Etext Snapdragon
 00:00:48 en
Play 08 Is it I? Warwick S. Price Etext Snapdragon
 00:00:55 en
Play 09 Not According to Schedule Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting Etext Pamela Krantz
 00:25:41 en
Play 10 Mr. Cartetet and His Fellow Americans Abroad David Gray Etext Kalynda
 00:26:05 en
Play 11 Boston Ballad, A Walt Whitman Etext Snapdragon
 00:03:37 en
Play 12 Chief Mate, The James Russell Lowell Etext Bill Mosley
 00:12:54 en
Play 13 Road to a Woman's Heart, The Sam Slick Etext Ric F
 00:11:57 en
Play 14 Icarus John G. Saxe Etext Snapdragon
 00:04:01 en
Play 15 Vive La Bagatelle ("Swift's Cheerful Creed") Clinton Scollard Etext Snapdragon
 00:01:54 en
Play 16 Staccato to O Le Lupe, A Bliss Carman Etext Ric F
 00:03:45 en
Play 17 Guest at the Ludlow, A Bill Nye Etext Pamela Krantz
 00:14:34 en
Play 18 Enchanted Hat - The Adventure of My Lady's Letter, The Harold MacGrath Etext Marty Kris
 00:43:40 en
Play 19 Litigation Bill Arp Etext 00:10:16 en
Play 20 Darius Green and his Flying-Machine J. T. Trowbridge Etext Bob Gonzalez
 00:12:54 en
Play 21 Paper: A Poem, by Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Etext Marty Kris
 00:04:21 en
Play 22 Niagara be Dammed Wallace Irwin Etext Snapdragon
 00:03:09 en
Play 23 Forbearance of The Admiral, The Wallace Irwin Etext Snapdragon
 00:01:18 en
Play 24 Fate R. K. Munkittrick Etext Snapdragon
 00:00:53 en
Play 25 Life Elixir of Marthy, The Elizabeth Hyer Neff Etext Patti Cunningham
 00:21:51 en
Play 26 Kaiser's Farewell to Prince Henry, The Bert Leston Taylor Etext Snapdragon
 00:02:30 en
Play 27 Johnny's Lessons Carroll Watson Rankin Etext Snapdragon
 00:01:24 en
Play 28 Grandfather Squeers James Whitcomb Riley Etext Linda Fredericks
 00:04:24 en
Play 29 Gentle Art of Boosting, The John Kendrick Bangs Etext Marty Kris
 00:14:30 en
Play 30 Columbia and the Cowboy Alice MacGowan Etext Linda Fredericks
 00:34:15 en
Play 31 One of the Palls Doane Robinson Etext Snapdragon
 00:02:56 en
Play 32 V-A-S-E, The James Jeffrey Roche Etext Snapdragon
 00:02:04 en
Play 33 Eve's Daughter Edward Rowland Sill Etext Snapdragon
 00:01:20 en
Play 34 Duluth Speech, The J. Proctor Knott Etext Pamela Krantz
 00:35:53 en
Play 35 Dictum Sapienti John Paul Etext Patti Cunningham
 00:01:01 en
Play 36 Hard Thomas Lansing Masson Etext Snapdragon
 00:01:03 en
Play 37 Sceptics, The Bliss Carman Etext Snapdragon
 00:01:46 en
Play 38 Day is Done, The Phoebe Cary Etext Patti Cunningham
 00:02:03 en
Play 39 Mr. Dooley on Golf Finley Peter Dunne Etext Marty Kris
 00:07:29 en
Play 40 When the Sirup's on the Flapjack Bert Leston Taylor Etext Patti Cunningham
 00:01:07 en