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The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales - Richard Connell
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales - Richard Connell
- Author: Richard Connell
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post....
Not That it Matters (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
Not That it Matters (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Single Author Collections
A. A. MILNE: …was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his day. He was highly acclaimed for dozens of popular plays. Moreover, he was both a contributor to and editor...
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story Of H.M.S. Pinafore (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Pinafore’s sublimely silly story is made even sillier by this (ostensibly for children) 1908 story version of the 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Gilbert, the author of the operetta’s lyrics, writes this version of the story with his tongue...
Trolley Folly - Henry Wallace Phillips
Trolley Folly - Henry Wallace Phillips
- Author: Henry Wallace Phillips
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with his route, who decides to drive around town instead. There are a couple of men unfamiliar with the basic...
Comedies of Courtship - Anthony Hope
Comedies of Courtship - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance / Short Stories
A series of short stories about love and the process of courtship. - Summary by Michele Eaton...
Andiron Tales - John Kendrick Bangs
Andiron Tales - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This book is a story about "Being the Remarkable Adventures of a Boy with a Lively Imagination" - Summary by John Kendrick Bangs...
Carry On, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Carry On, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Leave it to Jeeves" was Bertie's motto, be the question one of a colour of a tie, the style of a hat, the cut of a coat. Jeeves was always right. There was no one like him to placate rich uncles or indignant mammas. He said just the right thing at...
The Skipper's Wooing - W. W. JACOBS
The Skipper's Wooing - W. W. JACOBS
- Author: W. W. JACOBS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their resulting escapades prove to be highly amusing - Summary by Alan Lord...
Short Stories (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Short Stories (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a collection of short stories written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky), who is arguably better-known for his lengthy, contemplative novels. Several of his trademark philosophical, political and religious themes are interwoven throughout...
Europe and Elsewhere - Mark Twain
Europe and Elsewhere - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were many that had never before seen the light of day...which one reviewer said had never been Twain's intent for...
Tales of the Long Bow - G. K. Chesterton
Tales of the Long Bow - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, impossible to read about. Did the narrator merely say that they happened, without saying how they happened,...
Beasley's Christmas Party - Booth Tarkington
Beasley's Christmas Party - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A melodramatic folksy Christmas story, a little like Dickens - with a Tiny Tim, but also with some romance. Tarkington's writings are very much set in his early 1900s American culture. We are meant to sympathize with the crippled child but not even...
The Sunny Side (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
The Sunny Side (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Anthologies / Single Author Collections
A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the Pooh, though he was and is highly acclaimed for hundreds of gently humorous essays and poems published in, among other famous venues, Punch Magazine, most of which have...
Sam In The Suburbs - P. G. Wodehouse
Sam In The Suburbs - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A young and somewhat eccentric American named Sam Shotter is sent by his uncle, a wealthy businessman, to England to get him out of his hair. Sam's uncle sends him to work for Lord Tilbury's well known Mammoth Publishing Company, much against Lord...
Once A Week (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
Once A Week (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including regular readers of Punch -- between1903, when he graduated from Cambridge and 1906, when he began also to...
The Bachelors' Club - Israel Zangwill
The Bachelors' Club - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Bachelors' Club is a sanctuary for an elite group of London's unmarried men to gather. To qualify as a Bachelor, each had to undergo a strict background check to ensure that they were not only unmarried, but a zealot in the movement that held...
The Prince and Betty (version 2) - P. G. Wodehouse
The Prince and Betty (version 2) - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The story moves from a royal palace in Europe to a squalid tenement in New York. The European action centers on the efforts of an uncouth millionaire to create a gambling mecca on the tiny isle of Mervo. This involves the installation of a Prince...
Still - William - Richmal Crompton
Still - William - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction / Family
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales...
Smoke Bellew - Jack London
Smoke Bellew - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works
Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in the Klondike region while writing about his adventures there. Smoke Bellew is the collection of the resulting...
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 23, August, 1921 - W. H. Fawcett
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 23, August, 1921 - W. H. Fawcett
- Author: W. H. Fawcett
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue is packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead...
Bill the Conqueror - P. G. Wodehouse
Bill the Conqueror - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular. In Bill the Conqueror, Wodehouse creates an array of entertaining characters who gallop around England and...
The Tale of a Tank, and Other Yarns - Harold Ashton
The Tale of a Tank, and Other Yarns - Harold Ashton
- Author: Harold Ashton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Harold Ashton was the War Correspondent of The Daily News during the First World War and reported extensively on the British army’s involvement in the conflict. Whether working alongside the British troops that were fighting on the frontline or in...
Tales of St. Austin's - P. G. Wodehouse
Tales of St. Austin's - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Early short stories from Wodehouse focusing on life at St. Austin's, a fictional English public school. Also, Included are four humorous essays. - Summary by KevinS...
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol 1, No. 11, August, 1920 - W. H. Fawcett
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol 1, No. 11, August, 1920 - W. H. Fawcett
- Author: W. H. Fawcett
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue was packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead to the...
Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture - Palmer Cox
Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture - Palmer Cox
- Author: Palmer Cox
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single author
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short prose vignettes. From the publisher's preface, "thrice happy is the man who, having seen, can tell the fun; and having...
The Tale of Paddy Muskrat - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Paddy Muskrat - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature / Family
Enter Pleasant Valley, the home of the interesting and entertaining creatures and adventures born of American author Arthur Scott Bailey. The Tale of Paddy Muskrat is one of many works penned by Bailey that are part of his Sleep-Time Tales set...
Ruggles of Red Gap - Harry Leon WILSON
Ruggles of Red Gap - Harry Leon WILSON
- Author: Harry Leon WILSON
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A stuffy class-conscious gentleman's valet is transplanted to the rough uncivilized American northwest, where the rubes and social climbers are duly impressed with his manners and style. Will the American freedom rub off on the Englishman, or will...
Old New York - Edith Wharton
Old New York - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Old New York (1924) is a collection of four novellas (False Dawn; The Old Maid; The Spark; New Year's Day) by Edith Wharton, revolving around upper-class New York City society in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s. - Summary from Wikipedia...
Zuleika Dobson - Max BEERBOHM
Zuleika Dobson - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford' in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the young, handsome aristocrat the Duke of Dorset falls hopelessly in love with Zuleika who is visiting her...
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay." The plot follows Huxley and his cohorts in a search for meaning and hope...
O. Henryana - O. Henry
O. Henryana - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A book of poems and short stories. - Summary by Fritz...
A Gentleman of Leisure - P. G. Wodehouse
A Gentleman of Leisure - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A wealthy, love-sick bachelor, crooks, and card-sharps ensconced in an English castle make for a classic Wodehousian comedy of star-crossed lovers, imposters and stolen jewels. It all gets a bit thick, what? - Summary by Mark Nelson...
Bealby; A Holiday - H. G. Wells
Bealby; A Holiday - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Bealby is the comical story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the great house of an estate named Shonts (his stepfather, Mr. Darling, is a gardener there) and flees—not,...
Ghetto Comedies - Israel Zangwill
Ghetto Comedies - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
A series of tales, poignant as well as comic, set in the Jewish East End of London by the writer known as the "Dickens of the ghetto" - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
The Curious Quest - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Curious Quest - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in which this bored young millionaire transforms his indolent self and finds love. Typical of its era (1919),...
The Crock of Gold - James STEPHENS
The Crock of Gold - James STEPHENS
- Author: James STEPHENS
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adult Irish fairy tales. His first novel, The Charwoman's Daughter (1911), humorously examines the life and...
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 28, December, 1921 - W. H. Fawcett
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 28, December, 1921 - W. H. Fawcett
- Author: W. H. Fawcett
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue is packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead...
The Pothunters - P. G. Wodehouse
The Pothunters - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Pothunters was popular British humorist P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse's first published book. It tells the first of what would become a number of tales set in a fictitious English public school, and already shows the author's masterful,...
Our Street - William Makepeace Thackeray
Our Street - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Written as an autobiographical sketch of a Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, Our Street is a tongue-in-cheek look at English society and the characters who live in the street where he finds himself. It is the second of five "Christmas Books" written by Thackeray...
Ukridge - P. G. Wodehouse
Ukridge - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched” is a classic saying that might well have been remembered by Ukridge. Ukridge is always on the verge of making a fortune and counting his thousands before they are made. But Dame Fortune is a...
