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Coffee and Repartee - John Kendrick Bangs


Coffee and Repartee - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemans boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here these fellows repeatedly face questions and proclaimations of an inhabitant they call The Idiot. The...
Crome Yellow, Version 2 - Aldous Huxley


Crome Yellow, Version 2 - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic tone and caricaturish rendering of some characters makes it partly entertaining satire, but...
Love at Second Sight - Ada Leverson


Love at Second Sight - Ada Leverson
- Author: Ada Leverson
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
In the final instalment of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, three years have passed since Bruce and Edith's marriage was in danger of collapse. Thanks to Edith's forgiving and patient ways they have put their difficulties behind them, and their lives...
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4) - Mark Twain


Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the...
Dandy Dick - Arthur Wing Pinero


Dandy Dick - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
“Dandy Dick” was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatre—a series of plays which, besides giving playgoers a fresh source of laughter, and the English stage a new order of comic play, brought plentiful prosperity to...
Over The Plum Pudding - John Kendrick Bangs


Over The Plum Pudding - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Great Caesar’s ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories – some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three -- twelve of them by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by...
Rainy Week (Version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Rainy Week (Version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A couple invite people of different walks of life to their cottage along the beach, during the rainiest week of the year. The gathered people are unknowing actors in a carefully crafted play that is created by inviting personalities that can be...
The Little Nugget - P. G. Wodehouse


The Little Nugget - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip proposed by Mountry, despite her ex-husband having won custody of the boy. As Mountry leaves, Cynthia Drassilis...
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation) - Unknown


The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Rendered homeless by the arrest of his father and poverty of his mother, the...
Nothing But the Truth - Frederic Stewart Isham


Nothing But the Truth - Frederic Stewart Isham
- Author: Frederic Stewart Isham
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A young man, finding himself unexpectedly impecunious, attempts to improve his fortunes by wagering that he can speak nothing but the absolute truth for three weeks. He soon learns, however, that telling only the unvarnished truth can have...
Christmas Comes but Once a Year - John Leighton


Christmas Comes but Once a Year - John Leighton
- Author: John Leighton
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), and poor Soavo Spohf, organist of St. Stiff the Martyr, gifted in musical ability but not blessed in looks or...
My Buried Treasure - Richard Harding Davis


My Buried Treasure - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story, and, as it was his expedition...
Tartuffe - Molière


Tartuffe - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works is Tartuffe or The Hypocrite, written in...
The Silly Syclopedia - Noah Lott


The Silly Syclopedia - Noah Lott
- Author: Noah Lott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for HILARIOUS PURPOSES ONLY Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things by Noah Lott (an ex-relative of Noah...
The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2) - H. G. Wells


The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Science Fiction
Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow! As their experiments progress, the substance quickly gets out of control and the fun begins as insects and plants receive the...
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2 - Various


Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Volume 2 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 Ambrose Bierce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain and Bret Harte. -...
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde


The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both young ladies believe confers magical qualities on the...
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - George Horace Lorimer


Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - George Horace Lorimer
- Author: George Horace Lorimer
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." George Horace...
More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain


More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
"More Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" fills in the gaps left by the first collection of newspaper articles: "Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain" . The missing articles, collected by twainquotes.com, consist of works printed in the Muscatine Journal,...
The Wheels of Chance - H. G. Wells


The Wheels of Chance - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a Drapers Assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on a 2 week tour of the countryside. And his world will never be the same again.(Summary by annise)...