Historical Humor

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    • A Study in Brimstone
    • Written by: G. S. Denning
    • Narrated by: Robert Garson
    • Series: Warlock Holmes, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot.

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    • Written by: Thomas Pynchon
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 33 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • Written by: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 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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    • Written by: Voltaire
    • Narrated by: Jack Davenport
    • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2010-11-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Candide, published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant best seller....

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    • Written by: Umberto Eco
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2012-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • Written by: Oakley Hall, Robert Stone
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 22 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Percival Everett
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 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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    • Written by: Eve Babitz
    • Narrated by: Mia Barron
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a 20-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie; and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the '20s....

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    • Barker & Llewelyn Series, Book 1
    • Written by: Will Thomas
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
    • Series: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2016-11-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 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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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Bonnie Garmus
    • Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus, Pandora Sykes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,058 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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    • Written by: Ivan Goncharov, C. J. Hogarth
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This novel centers on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daz. But this torpid existence comes to an end when Oblomov finds that he must engage with the real world....

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    • Written by: Thomas Berger
    • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
    • Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2014-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A newly discovered manuscript, reveals that Jack had faked his death to get out of his publishing contract, and he now picks up the story of his extraordinarily action-packed life....

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    • Written by: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed - but precociously observant - neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page....

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    • Written by: Peter Carey
    • Narrated by: Colin McPhillamy, Craig Baldwin, Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race the Redex Trial....

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    • Written by: Jane Austen
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2008-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Jane Austen's first major novel is an ironic tale of the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money....

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    • Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness
    • Written by: Alexander McCall Smith
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii, Jamie Jackson, Robert Ian Mackenzie
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
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    • From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series comes a delightful compendium of very short fiction and comics that celebrate the joy and absurdity of the human experience....

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    • Written by: Amy Stewart
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Series: Kopp Sisters, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 1914 collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey....

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