Famous funny fellows: Brief biographical sketches of American humorists

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

T. Smollett

The work is an epistolary comedy that opens with a series of letters written by a nameless narrator to…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s tale is a blend of fantasy fiction, satire, and Arthurian parody, set up from the very first…

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones

Timothy Dexter

The work is a self‑published memoir of Timothy Dexter, a New England merchant whose life spanned the…

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy of the Elizabethan stage, set in the mythic world of ancient Athens and…

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

Percival Leigh

The work is a satirical grammar guide that treats the rules of English syntax as if they were immutable laws,…

The Passionate Elopement

Compton MacKenzie

The work is a comic, socially satirical novel set in eighteenth‑century England, where the author foregrounds…