Audiobooks by John Kendrick Bangs

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 Introduction2 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky3 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky4 - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County by Mark Twain5 - The Mouse by Saki6 - How I Killed a Bear by Charles Dudley Warner7 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol8 - Luck by Mark Twain9 - My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock10 - The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde11 - The Ransom of Red Chief by O Henry12 - The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner13 - How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton14 - How To Tell A Story by Mark Twain15 - The Idiot's Journalism Scheme by John Kendrick Bangs16 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J M Barrie17 - Lost in a London Fog by Louisa May Alcott18 - Revenge by Ambrose Bierce19 - John Mortonson's Funeral by Ambrose Bierce20 - The Death of a Government Clerk by Anton Chekhov21 - The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Alan Poe22 - Eve's Diary by Mark Twain23 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dudley Warner, Edgar Alan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, J. M. Barrie, John Kendrick Bangs, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nikolai Gogol, O Henry, Oscar Wilde, Ring Lardner, Saki, Stephen Leacock, William James Lampton (Author), Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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The Idiot

The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers Pedagog's home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you're beneath contempt you can say what you please. - This is the first of John Kendrick Bangs' 'Idiot' books and was published by Harper and Brothers in 1895.

John Kendrick Bangs (Author), Gregg Margarite (Narrator)

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Ghosts I have Met and Some Others

New York born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightfully humourous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts.

John Kendrick Bangs (Author), Cathy Barrat (Narrator)

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The Ghost Club: An Unfortunate Episode in the Life of No. 5010

John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, editor and satirist. 'The Ghost Club' is a lighthearted ghost story told by a prisoner who has been found guilty of burglary and the theft of a set of ornate silver teaspoons. His improbable story of how he came to be in possession of the spoons is extraordinary and charmingly engaging.

John Kendrick Bangs (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Speck on the Lens

John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was a popular American author, editor and satirist. 'The Speck on the Lens' is the story of an occulist who is approached by an unusual character holding a strange tin box. He introduces himself as the inventor of a special telescopic device with very unusual properties...but it is accessible only to someone with a very unique type of eye. The oculist, he says, has this kind of eye. The doctor puts the device to his eye and is astounded by what he sees. But then he perceives a strange speck on the lens...and things take a weird turn....

John Kendrick Bangs (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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Dark Holidays

Feeling a chill amidst the warmth of the season? Sensing a shadow lurking behind the tinsel and lights? Experience the darker visions hidden within our brightest holiday. Come listen to the water ghost's story as she spends Christmas Eve haunting Harrowby Hill. Listen as Charles Dickens examines the figure which haunts "The Signalman," and Edgar Allan Poe details the secret of "The Oval Portrait." You'll shiver as "The Monkey's Paw" twitches grimly in the cold and enjoy Mark Twain's fascinating yarn about a ghostly giant warming himself at the fireplace. Sixteen unabridged tales of spirits to playfully darken the holidays and add chill to a winter's night: "The Traveller" by R. H. Benson"The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall" by John Kendrick Bangs"The Oval Portrait" and "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe"A Ghost Story" by Mark Twain"The Wolf" by Guy de Maupassant"The Adventures of the German Student" by Washington Irving"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs"From the Tideless Sea" by W. H. Hodgson"Madam Crowl's Ghost" by J. S. Le Fanu"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde"Doctor Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne"The Old Nurse's Story" by Mrs. Gaskell"The Black Veil" and "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens"Selecting a Ghost" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Tom Casaletto, Sandra Burr, Leanor Reizen, Jim Bond, Roger Dressler, and Michael Page

Charles Dickens, Edd Mcnair, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, John Kendrick Bangs, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Robert Hugh Benson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Various, W. H. Hodgson, W.W. Jacobs, Washington Irving (Author), Jim Bond, Leanore Reizen, Michael Page, Roger Dressler, Sandra Burr, Tom Casaletto (Narrator)

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