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A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a man who seemed to know everything...
Eve’s Diary - Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The following is an extract from Adam: “She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world...
Selected Short Stories. - P. G. Wodehouse
Selected Short Stories. - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A miscellaneous collection of short stories, not featuring any of Wodehouse's regular characters, most concern love and romance and, being Wodehouse, all are amusing.(Summary by Wikipedia)...
The Offshore Pirate - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Offshore Pirate - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is a long short story in 6 parts from Fitzgerald's 1920 short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It predates the screwball movie comedies of the 1930's in that it features a determined young heiress trying to get what she wants out of...
Bill Nye's Cordwood - Bill Nye
Bill Nye's Cordwood - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at everything and everybody. This book is another wonderful collection of his thoughts on late 19th century America....
Kathleen - Christopher Morley
Kathleen - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of Kathleen and Joe from the letter and set out to find and meet Kathleen. The competition between them leads...
The Prince and Betty - P. G. Wodehouse
The Prince and Betty - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Prince and Betty is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was originally published in Ainslee's Magazine in the United States in January 1912, and, in a slightly different form, as a serial in Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom between February and...
The Diaries of Adam and Eve - Mark Twain
The Diaries of Adam and Eve - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain wrote these two diaries, or rather as he insists, 'translated them from the original manuscripts', late in his writing career. The freshness, wonder and excitement of exploring a new world permeates Eve's thoughts as she takes great joy...
Something New - P. G. Wodehouse
Something New - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willing to pay $5000 to the person who can get it back for him. Discretion is necessary since Peters’ daughter is...
The Cave On Thunder Cloud - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Cave On Thunder Cloud - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Tish Carberry reluctantly takes her two best friends, Aggie and Lizzie, on a camping trip into the hills of their Midwestern American town, only to fall in with outlaws on the lam from a train robbery! Comic adventure ensues. - Summary by Matt...
Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme - C. J. Dennis
Jim of the Hills - A Story in Rhyme - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance / Narratives
Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the country town, the other a classy city girl, both...
The Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading) - George Gissing
The Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading) - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Clarence and Emmeline Mumford are in for a real treat when they take in the young, outspoken Miss Louise Derrick as their guest. Shedding a light on class struggles in the Victorian era, The Paying Guest offers a look at just what "proper society"...
An Amiable Charlatan - E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Amiable Charlatan - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating his food, and hands him a packet underneath the table! So begins Paul Walmsley's acquaintance - and adventures...
The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities - Stephen Leacock
The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
More stories by Canadian Stephen Leacock. Some of these stories carry over characters introduced in Further Foolishness. Some stories are humourous; some are more thoughtful. It helps to be familiar with WWI-era European politics to catch much of...
Extracts from Adam's Diary - Mark Twain
Extracts from Adam's Diary - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn how Eve caught the infant Cain,...
Fables for the Frivolous - Guy Wetmore Carryl
Fables for the Frivolous - Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Single author
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of fables from two centuries before,...
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour - Robert Smith Surtees
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour - Robert Smith Surtees
- Author: Robert Smith Surtees
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure in creating comic personalities and dialogue and resembles the later Pickwick Papers of Dickens, whose style...
Indiscretions of Archie - P. G. Wodehouse
Indiscretions of Archie - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
It wasn't Archie's fault really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her--well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a...
Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a...
Europe Revised - Irvin S. Cobb
Europe Revised - Irvin S. Cobb
- Author: Irvin S. Cobb
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Irwin Cobb's humorous Europe Revised is a travelogue and comedy almost in the style of Mark Twain. The dedication says it best, "To My Small Daughter Who bade me shed a tear at the tomb of Napoleon, which I was very glad to do, because when I got...
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 8, 1917 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the United States in 1933 by A.L. Burt and Co., New York....
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood
- Author: Ingersoll Lockwood
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Little Baron Trump is a man of adventure. He and his dog Bulger have already braved many adventures together, but at the time our story opens, they are kind of dull at home, upset with the increasing familiarity of both two- and four legged...
Mornings at Bow Street - John Wight
Mornings at Bow Street - John Wight
- Author: John Wight
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces of this book are actual reports throughout the 1870s newspaper written by the reporter, John Wight and...
Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Some time after "Three Men in a Boat", George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany. This relaxed and gently humorous story of the three friends wandering in and around the Black Forest is coloured by anecdotes, odd...
A Bayard from Bengal - F. Anstey
A Bayard from Bengal - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manners, which immediately mark him as a foreigner, and embarks on an enviable program of escapades. These stories...
Brain Twister - Laurence M. Janifer
Brain Twister - Laurence M. Janifer
- Author: Laurence M. Janifer
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their original meeting, at a science-fiction convention. Both men were...
Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor - James Whitcomb Riley
Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"What this country needs, aside from a new Indian policy and a style of poison for children which will be liable to kill rats if they eat it by accident, is a Railway Guide which will be just as good two years ago as it was next spring—a Railway...
The Unbearable Bassington - Saki
The Unbearable Bassington - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short stories. Comus (The Unbearable) Bassington, is a charming young man about town. His perversity however thwarts...
Emma (version 2) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to...
Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a...
Uneasy Money - P. G. Wodehouse
Uneasy Money - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Uneasy Money is a romantic comedy by P.G. Wodehouse, published during the First World War, it offers light escapism. More romantic but only a little less humorous that his mature works, it tells of the vicissitudes of poor Lord Dawlish, who inherits...
The Talking Horse And Other Stories - F. Anstey
The Talking Horse And Other Stories - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range from humorous and whimsical to haunting and thought-provoking. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
Seventeen - Booth Tarkington
Seventeen - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a...
More Tish - Mary Roberts Rinehart
More Tish - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mary Roberts Rinehart wrote 6 books about the elderly Letitia (Tish) Carberry and the escapades she gets her elderly lady cronies into. The series led to a 1942 movie with Marjorie Main. This particular book, the third in the series, was written...
Uncle Remus Returns - Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus Returns - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of the original "little boy" who is visiting his grandmother on the plantation. As always Uncle Remus can be relied upon to provide funny and pointed insight into human personalities through his...
The Pickwick Papers (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
The Pickwick Papers (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent leader, Mr. Pickwick. Join him and his friends, Winkle, Snodgrass, and Tupman, as they tour the country in...
Essays on Paul Bourget - Mark Twain
Essays on Paul Bourget - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget". (Summary by John Greenman)...
The Amazons: A Farcical Romance - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Amazons: A Farcical Romance - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Comedy
This 1895 farce inspired by the outlandish idea of women wearing pants, centers around the predicament of the three daughters of the eccentric Marchioness of Castlejordan, who determined to have sons, raised them like boys. She encouraged them to...
Humour of the North - Various
Humour of the North - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour. . . . The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious claim. It embraces, however, what...
The Intrusion of Jimmy - P. G. Wodehouse
The Intrusion of Jimmy - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters head to England,...
