Wisdom while you wait: Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...

The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue

Percival Leigh

Percival Leigh’s The Comic English Grammar presents itself as a tongue‑in‑cheek guide to the quirks of…

Happy-Thought Hall

F. C. Burnand

The work is a comic sketch of a group of acquaintances wrestling with the absurdities of planning a grand…

Terribly Intimate Portraits

Noël Coward

Terribly Intimate Portraits is a collection of whimsical sketches that blend autobiographical diary entries…

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

F. Anstey

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. is a comic sketchbook that strings together a series of episodic misadventures of a…

Nonsense Books

Edward Lear

The work opens with a generous encomium from the Victorian critic John Ruskin, who crowns Edward Lear’s…

The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings

Mark Lemon

The Jest Book is a compendium of English wit, assembled by an unnamed compiler who declares his purpose to…