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Cranford (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Cranford is set in a small market town populated largely by a number of respectable ladies. It tells of their secrets and foibles, their gossip and their romances as they face the challenges of dealing with new inhabitants to their society and...
Five O'Clock Tea - William Dean Howells
Five O'Clock Tea - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the ingenuous and delightful Mr. Willis Campbell. (Summary by Ruth Golding) CAST: Narrator: Kim Stich Mr. Willis...
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope) - P. G. Wodehouse
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope) - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter (Introduction by Wikipedia)...
The Young Visiters - Daisy ASHFORD
The Young Visiters - Daisy ASHFORD
- Author: Daisy ASHFORD
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena introduces his young lady friend Ethel to a genuine gentleman named Bernard and, to his irritation, they hit it...
What Dress Makes of Us - Dorothy QUIGLEY
What Dress Makes of Us - Dorothy QUIGLEY
- Author: Dorothy QUIGLEY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summary by Ruth Golding)...
At The Sign of The Greedy Pig - Charles S. BROOKS
At The Sign of The Greedy Pig - Charles S. BROOKS
- Author: Charles S. BROOKS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlements thrust upward from the rock and towers that stand on tip-toeβ¦. Our stage is the square of this ancient city,...
The Enchanted Typewriter - John Kendrick Bangs
The Enchanted Typewriter - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of the stories to the late (and invisible) James...
Hints to Pilgrims - Charles S. BROOKS
Hints to Pilgrims - Charles S. BROOKS
- Author: Charles S. BROOKS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works
In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies, describes funny incidents that can happen to people on holidays or in everyday life. His two "frightful"...
Vice Versa - F. Anstey
Vice Versa - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Set in Victorian times, the novel concerns business man Paul Bultitude and his son Dick. Dick is about to leave home for a boarding school which is ruled by the cane wielding headmaster Dr. Grimstone. Bultitude, seeing his son's fear of going to the...
Free Air - Sinclair Lewis
Free Air - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as they travel by automobile from Minneapolis to Seattle. She is wooed and won by a noble but simple commoner she...
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises - Edmund Spenser
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Erotica / Humorous Fiction
While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid. The poem is an epyllion like Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and...
Take it From Dad - George LIVERMORE
Take it From Dad - George LIVERMORE
- Author: George LIVERMORE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In each letter "Dad" comments on some aspect of Ted's experience, attitude, or behavior, illustrating and driving...
A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories - Caroline TICKNOR
A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories - Caroline TICKNOR
- Author: Caroline TICKNOR
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society in the American Gilded Age in the late ninteenth century, and these stories allow us to understand the...
The Old Debauchees - Henry Fielding
The Old Debauchees - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other characters, including both of the Laroons, try to manipulate Jourdain for their own ends; they accomplish it...
A Tramp Abroad - Mark Twain
A Tramp Abroad - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph...
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Lucy Maud Montgomeryβs classic childrenβs novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you canβt help but love. Despite her βtragicalβ past, Anneβs optimism and imagination have helped her to always see...
A Man of Means - P. G. Wodehouse
A Man of Means - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories written in collaboration by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill. The stories all star Roland Bleke, a nondescript young man to whom financial success comes through a series of "lucky" chances, the...
The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
26 of Uncle Remus's stories put into verse and song. With the exception of the Tar Baby story, they were all new to this publication of 1904 and cover a variety of humorous subjects from Adan and Eve (De Appile Tree) to Brer Rabbit's Gigglin' Place....
The Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Ballads
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert...
A Damsel in Distress - P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on October 17 1919. It had previously been serialised in The Saturday...
If Winter Don't - Barry Pain
If Winter Don't - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'. We follow the professional and marital decline of long suffering (and loving it), Luke Sharper, as his marriage to Mabel flounders while his love for...
Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope
Miss Mackenzie - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself with no one to care for, and in possession of a moderate fortune. Having money, she is now much sought-after...
You Wobbly Wink-Eyed Little Wop - J. Clarence Edwards
You Wobbly Wink-Eyed Little Wop - J. Clarence Edwards
- Author: J. Clarence Edwards
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
To My Buddies Of the U. S. Armyβsome three million in number; Of the 90th Division more specifically, and Particularly to the 315th Engineers, to which Regiment I was βattached for rations,β Being a Liability of Company βE,β This little Volume is...
Vice in its Proper Shape - Anonymous
Vice in its Proper Shape - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction
Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition, Cautionary tales of the transmigration of the souls of naughty boys and girls, as...
Nonsense Novels - Stephen Leacock
Nonsense Novels - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)...
The Calico Cat (version 2) - Charles Miner Thompson
The Calico Cat (version 2) - Charles Miner Thompson
- Author: Charles Miner Thompson
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a shotgun at an annoying cat on his fence.. and hits a man skulking in the bushes. What did the cat do to...
The Hunting of the Snark (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Ballads
The Hunting of the Snark - "An Agony in 8 Fits" is typically categorized as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight...
Bunker Bean - Harry Leon WILSON
Bunker Bean - Harry Leon WILSON
- Author: Harry Leon WILSON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, but alas.....is not them. He grows up in this humorous volume from 1913. - Summary by joseph tabler...
Love Conquers All - Robert C. BENCHLEY
Love Conquers All - Robert C. BENCHLEY
- Author: Robert C. BENCHLEY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, was a writer, humorist and actor of note during the 1920s through the early 1940s. Born in Massachusetts, he spent his early literary career in New York City as an editor, critic and columnist for many of the major...
The Schoolmistress - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Schoolmistress - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: "Think of the deception I am practising upon dear Vere! Think of the people who believe in the rigid austerity of...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, now a major motion picture, features Benjamin Button, who, born as an old man much to the dismay and chagrin of his father and family Doctor, ages backwards until he...
Short Humor Collection 001 - Various
Short Humor Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories / Humor
This is a collection of short humorous works first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Human Boy Again - Eden PHILLPOTTS
The Human Boy Again - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories / Single Author Collections
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy And The War (1916). Eden Phillpotts was popular with...
Love and Freindship - Jane Austen
Love and Freindship - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear...
The Idiot at home - John Kendrick Bangs
The Idiot at home - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are encounters with his companions from his boarding house days, Coffee and Repartee, along with new characters...
Piccadilly Jim (version 2) - P. G. Wodehouse
Piccadilly Jim (version 2) - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Jimmy "Piccadilly Jim" Crocker returns to New York to repair his reputation and pursue his love-interest, Ann Chester. All he has to do is navigate imposters, explosives, spies, a rotten kid and his step-aunt Nesta while he pretends to be someone...
The Bertrams - Anthony Trollope
The Bertrams - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is a massive effort, taking place in England and the Middle East, with a cast of thousands... Well, not thousands, fortunately, but certainly a great many. There are three Bertrams present: Sir Lionel, his son George (our hero), and the wealthy...
Miss Billy - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, he was consoled by naming her Billy. Miss Billy, now 18, orphaned and all alone in the world, takes her...
The Mirror Of Kong Ho - Ernest Bramah
The Mirror Of Kong Ho - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is delightfully humorous. - Summary by...
Off-Hand Sketches - T. S. ARTHUR
Off-Hand Sketches - T. S. ARTHUR
- Author: T. S. ARTHUR
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at the expense of humanity, good feeling, or virtue. Many of the incidents given, are facts embellished by a...
