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The One-Hoss Shay - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The One-Hoss Shay - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry
This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiece" describes the "logical" outcome of building an object (in this case, a two-wheeled carriage called a shay) that...
The Regent - Arnold Bennett
The Regent - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel. Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough and...
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories - Cal STEWART
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories - Cal STEWART
- Author: Cal STEWART
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man. (Summary by Philip Martin)...
The School For Scandal - Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
The School For Scandal - Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
- Author: Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy was first performed in 1777 and focuses on the intrigues and scandals of the British upper classes. Lady Sneerwell wants to marry Charles Surface, while Joseph Surface wants to marry Maria, an heiress and ward of...
Perkins of Portland - Ellis Parker BUTLER
Perkins of Portland - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions directed at a gullible and willing public. Unlike most tales of the kind, with moralistic endings where the...
Seven Keys to Baldpate - Earl Derr Biggers
Seven Keys to Baldpate - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Dime-store novelist William Magee has gone to Baldpate Inn to do a little soul-searching in an attempt to write a serious work. Thinking he will be alone and uninterrupted, Magee arrives at the inn in the dead of winter. But he discovers that there...
The Chronicles of Clovis - Saki
The Chronicles of Clovis - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories have characters that do not appear elsewhere in the collection, many of them are loosely centred round the...
A Deal With The Devil - Eden PHILLPOTTS
A Deal With The Devil - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantankerous yet loveable sort, has made a deal with the devil, which his granddaughter, in part, will pay. - Summary...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave,...
The Impromptu of Versailles - Molière
The Impromptu of Versailles - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they had prepared, the King has just asked for an entirely new piece - to be ready later that same day! So all the...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest...
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons - James Francis THIERRY
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons - James Francis THIERRY
- Author: James Francis THIERRY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Recorded by his Friend Dr. Watson is a parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories. "...there in the same old den, at...
This Simian World - Clarence DAY
This Simian World - Clarence DAY
- Author: Clarence DAY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes had not risen to prominence, but rather one of the other species had become dominant in our place. (summary...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens 6th novel, serially published in 1843 - 44. Irrespective of the fact that Dickens considered - "Chuzzlewit is in 100 points immeasurably the best of my stories"- it failed to resonate with, or capture the public's...
The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat - Rudyard Kipling
The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth was flat. How? And why? That is what this beguiling tale of Kipling's sets out to tell us; how the local...
The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings these stories to the English reader. Included in the collection are twelve stories selected by Cervantes, including "A...
At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern - Myrtle Reed
At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall odd-ball relations. Our...
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and...
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others - John Kendrick Bangs
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a...
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took this reputation so to heart that they brought up their children shielded from all temptation and trained...
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. - Washington Irving
Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Washington Irving, under the pseudonym, Jonathan Oldstyle. These eight letters and one additional were first...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is...
Penrod and Sam - Booth Tarkington
Penrod and Sam - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
Follow more of the hilarious life of the boy Penrod Schofield, his friends Sam Williams, Herman, Verman, Georgie, Maurice, and the love of his life, Marjorie Jones. (Summary by Jonathan)...
Just William - Richmal Crompton
Just William - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasing. The series of books is better known in the United Kingdom than in the U.S. ( Summary by David Wales )...
Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas - F. Anstey
Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pieces for Punch and humorous novels. Mr. Punch's Model Music Hall is a collection of humorous pieces written...
That Pup - Ellis Parker BUTLER
That Pup - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A puppy, unanounced and unordered, arrives in a crate at Mr. Murchison's house. Humorous events follow. - Summary by david wales...
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University - Owen Wister
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)...
The Range Dwellers - B. M. Bower
The Range Dwellers - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Westerns
Ellis Carleton, son of a rich and indulgent father, has enjoyed a wasteful and irresponsible young adulthood. But on reaching 25 it is time to grow up, so dad sends him off to dad’s ranch in outback Montana with instructions to the foreman to pay...
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Plays
Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic General, has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an aspiring young academic, reliable but not...
Seven Men - Max BEERBOHM
Seven Men - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively enough) Max Beerbohm wrote short biographies of six imaginary writers. Though their works of course no...
Jack and the Check Book - John Kendrick Bangs
Jack and the Check Book - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Bangs is in top form in his version of this small collection of timeless fairy tales. If you don't immediately recognize Jack and the Check Book, Puss, the Promoter, and the Golden Fleece, don't worry, you soon will. - Summary by Cate Barratt...
Anne of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Following Anne of Green Gables, the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from...
Mike: A Public School Story - P. G. Wodehouse
Mike: A Public School Story - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This novel introduces the characters Mike Jackson and Psmith, who are featured in several of Wodehouse’s later works. It shows how the two characters first met each other as teenagers at boarding school. As Psmith doesn’t appear until about halfway...
Cupid's Cyclopedia - Oliver Herford
Cupid's Cyclopedia - Oliver Herford
- Author: Oliver Herford
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and illustrator, John Cecil Clay. Herford’s books were usually short and quite popular in their time. He is a...
The Bab Ballads (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads (version 2) - 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...
The Maker of Opportunities - George Gibbs
The Maker of Opportunities - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
When you're tired only because you're bored; and you're bored only because it seems like there's really nothing worth doing; and you're so, so wealthy that one would think opportunity should be knocking at your door every day... you sometimes just...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts...
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures - Douglas William JERROLD
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures - Douglas William JERROLD
- Author: Douglas William JERROLD
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a playwright and later a journalist. He was a contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens. As a journalist he...
The Awful German Language (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Awful German Language (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Education
This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the (awful) German language. His examples...
Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading) - Rupert Hughes
Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading) - Rupert Hughes
- Author: Rupert Hughes
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction
What happens when a mix of lovers get stuck together on a coast-to-coast train? Mainly hilarity. There is every kind of couple imaginable. One serviceman and his bride-to-be are trying desperately to get married but can't find a clergyman to perform...
