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Comic History of the United States - Bill Nye
Comic History of the United States - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: History / Humor
This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic and humorous remarks. The reader will enjoy a...
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1 - Various
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Anthologies / Humor
Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin and Washington...
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humor / Literary Collections / Writing & Linguistics
This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and published by the University of Iowa Press. The speeches are in the Public Domain, and our thanks go to the...
Perfect Behavior (Version 2) - Donald Ogden Stewart
Perfect Behavior (Version 2) - Donald Ogden Stewart
- Author: Donald Ogden Stewart
- Genre: Humor
A humorous guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises. (Summary by MaryAnn)...
My Discovery of England - Stephen Leacock
My Discovery of England - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
"In the course of time a very considerable public feeling was aroused in the United States and Canada over this state of affairs. The lack of reciprocity in it seemed unfair. It was felt (or at least I felt) that the time had come when some one...
Bizarre (version 2) - Lawton Mackall
Bizarre (version 2) - Lawton Mackall
- Author: Lawton Mackall
- Genre: Humor
A series of humorous musings, short-length jokes, often concerning words and manners. - Summary by Edmund Bloxam...
Vagabond Adventures - Ralph Keeler
Vagabond Adventures - Ralph Keeler
- Author: Ralph Keeler
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Humor
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and...
Pastiche and Prejudice - Arthur Bingham Walkley
Pastiche and Prejudice - Arthur Bingham Walkley
- Author: Arthur Bingham Walkley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of pastiches was completed after he...
A Tangled Tale - Lewis Carroll
A Tangled Tale - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Short Stories / Humor / Mathematics
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1896) is best known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford for 27 years. 'A tangled tale' merges his two talents as...
Stage Land - Jerome K. Jerome
Stage Land - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor / Literary Criticism
A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, "the earnest student of drama".'...
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy - Stephen Leacock
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works / Humor
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)...
Washington Irving's Visit to England - Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Visit to England - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. This volume contains some of his observations about that trip, including his impressions of the English...
From Pillar to Post - John Kendrick Bangs
From Pillar to Post - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
I could not let these random notes of a delightful experience go forth into the world without expressing in some way my deep appreciation of the valued services rendered me in my ten years of platform work by my friends of the Lyceum Bureaus. In...
In Our Convent Days - Agnes Repplier
In Our Convent Days - Agnes Repplier
- Author: Agnes Repplier
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelphia. She shares the highlights (and some of the low lights) of her time there. Perhaps this sharp eye,...
Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments - Nathan Dane Urner
Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined Society's Giddy Heights And Glittering Attainments - Nathan Dane Urner
- Author: Nathan Dane Urner
- Genre: Humor
An 1883 tongue-in-cheek spoof of manners and mannerisms of βsocietyβ. βthe βOpen Sesameβ to that jealously-guarded realm,βgood society,βin which you aspire to circulate freely and shine with becoming lusterβ¦. And I, the author of this code of...
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humor / Travel & Geography / Letters
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, when Twain took his family to Europe in June of 1891, he left with the knowledge that...
If I May - A. A. MILNE
If I May - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
A. A. Milne (18 January 1882 β 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. 'If I May' is a collection of short essays on desultory subjects that first appeared in The...
Bullets & Billets - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
Bullets & Billets - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Author: Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Genre: War & Military / Humor / Modern (20th C)
A front-line view of life in the trenches of the Western Front in the early part of 1914-1915. Told by Lieutenant (later Captain) Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, whose Alf, Bert, and Old Bill were forerunners to Bill Mauldin and his Willie and Joe...
Pagan Papers - Kenneth Grahame
Pagan Papers - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered musings on the human condition...everything from loafing about and old book collecting, to heavier topics like...
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume 1 - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume 1 - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Until recently, this work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 β April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This recording of Paine's exhaustive...
Miscellaneous Essays of G. K. Chesterton - G. K. Chesterton
Miscellaneous Essays of G. K. Chesterton - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
These eleven files are miscellaneous short essays or stories from G.K. Chesterton. They were chosen for not only their brevity but also for being shining exemplars of Chesterton's wit and whimsy. A fun but powerful introduction into the mind of the...
Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews - Mark Twain
Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Modern (19th C)
This collection of the 258 known, publicly-printed interviews of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Gary Scharnhorst and published by the University of Alabama Press. The interviews are in the Public Domain, and our thanks go to...
Of All Things - Robert C. BENCHLEY
Of All Things - Robert C. BENCHLEY
- Author: Robert C. BENCHLEY
- Genre: Humor
A collection of amusing essays satirizing serious consideration of topics including natural history, social etiquette, or indeed, civilized behavior (especially of the upper classes). (Summary by Arnold Banner)...
Further Foolishness - Stephen Leacock
Further Foolishness - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works / Humor
Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 3) - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 3) - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humor
A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior...
Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts - Bill Nye
Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humor
Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves." And he did exactly that in hundreds of newspaper columns that were later collected...
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Until recently, this work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 β April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This recording of Paine's exhaustive...
Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man! - Mary Roberts Rinehart
Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man! - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Humor
This warm, affectionate duet of essays by two of the early twentieth century's most popular writers is a bit dated but still entertaining. Summary by David Wales....
English as She is Spoke - Pedro CAROLINO
English as She is Spoke - Pedro CAROLINO
- Author: Pedro CAROLINO
- Genre: Humor / Writing & Linguistics
English as She is Spoke is a 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrasebook that has become a classic of absurdist humor, owing chiefly to the apparent fact that its writer had absolutely no knowledge of English. It is thought that for utterly...
From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Author: Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Genre: War & Military / Humor
This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's recuperation from injuries suffered in the Second Battle of Ypres and ends with the Armistice. In this phase of...
And Even Now - Max BEERBOHM
And Even Now - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous, including parodies of various...
Essays and Literary Studies - Stephen Leacock
Essays and Literary Studies - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor / Literary Criticism
A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)...
English as She is Wrote - Anonymous
English as She is Wrote - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Humor / Writing & Linguistics / Language learning
"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is wrote by the Inaccurate, By Advertisers and...
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 β April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. These recordings of Paine's...
The Oscar Wilde Calendar - Oscar Wilde
The Oscar Wilde Calendar - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humor
A compendium of Oscar Wilde's wit, including some of his most famous epigrams as well as unpublished quotations supplied by his friends. The book is formatted as a calendar, with one saying for each day of the year, and was edited by Wildean...
The Wit of Women - Kate SANBORN
The Wit of Women - Kate SANBORN
- Author: Kate SANBORN
- Genre: Humor
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting. While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now threadbare, the wit of women has been almost utterly ignored and unrecognized.With the joy and honest pride...
The Romance Of The Commonplace - Frank Gelett BURGESS
The Romance Of The Commonplace - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) was an...
The Defendant - G. K. Chesterton
The Defendant - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good humor he βdefendsβ a series of seeming harmless things that need no defense, and in so doing he exposes many of...
Some Articles About Mark Twain - Undefined
Some Articles About Mark Twain - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works / Humor
"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Published in the June 16, 1888 edition of "Literature - An Illustrated Weekly Magazine" (Vol. 1, No. 17) these four, early magazine articles about Mark...
One Third Off - Irvin S. Cobb
One Third Off - Irvin S. Cobb
- Author: Irvin S. Cobb
- Genre: Humor
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876βMarch 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and wrote over 60 books and 300 short stories. Cobb has been described as "having a round shape, bushy eyebrows, full lips,...
