Historical Humour

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    • By: Charles Dickens
    • Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Despite the title, Dickens's portrayal of early industrial society is less relentlessly grim than that in novels by contemporaries such as Elizabeth Gaskell or Charles Kingsley....

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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: 17-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 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: 23-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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: Henry James
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women"....

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    • By: Umberto Eco
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • 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: 29-11-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 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: Charles Portis
    • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Ridiculous Lovers Series, Book 1
    • By: D.L. Carter
    • Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
    • Series: Ridiculous Lovers Series, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • After the death of her miserly cousin Antony North, Millicent Boarder is determined her family should never be poor or vulnerable again. To protect them, she conceals her cousin's death and assumes his identity....

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    • By: Tessa Dare
    • Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
    • Series: Girl Meets Duke, Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies....

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    • By: Tony McKenna, Mervyn Davis
    • Narrated by: David Tredinnick
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • A great Australian yarn about a bold Australian outback adventure belonging to another time in another world, inspired by a true story....

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    • A Personal Narrative
    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-2002
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • "If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch, it must be the sort of life...

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    • A William Power Mystery
    • By: Robert Gott
    • Narrated by: Paul English
    • Series: William Power, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It's 1942, and war is raging in Europe and in the Pacific. The Japanese army is on Australia's doorstep, and the small coastal Queensland town of Maryborough is on full war footing....

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    • A Baleful Godmother Novel (Garland Cousins, Book 1)
    • By: Emily Larkin
    • Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
    • Series: Garland Cousins, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Oliver Dasenby is the most infuriating man Primrose Garland has ever known. Eight years in the cavalry hasn't taught him solemnity, nor has the unexpected inheritance of a dukedom. But when Oliver inherited his dukedom, it appears that he also inherited a murderer....

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    • A Mystery
    • By: Estelle Monbrun
    • Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • When Adeline Bertrand-Verdon, the haughty, conniving president of the Proust Association, is murdered, Inspector Jean-Pierre Foucheroux is called on to lead the investigation....

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    • By: Meg Mason
    • Narrated by: Hannah Monson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 779 ratings
    • This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her, but she doesn't know what it is. Her husband Patrick thinks she is fine. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going....

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    • The Flashman Papers, Book 6
    • By: George MacDonald Fraser
    • Narrated by: Colin Mace
    • Series: The Flashman Papers, Book 6
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages, and fornication....

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    • A Phryne Fisher Mystery
    • By: Kerry Greenwood
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel
    • Series: Phryne Fisher, Book 5
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things -dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance....

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