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ReadThe 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…
ReadA 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…
ReadA 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…
ReadA 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
Percival Leigh’s *The Comic English Grammar* presents itself as a tongue‑in‑cheek guide to the quirks of…
ReadThe Passionate Elopement
Compton MacKenzie
The work is a comic, socially satirical novel set in eighteenth‑century England, where the author foregrounds…
ReadOne Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories is a medieval anthology that gathers French tales translated into…
The Gay Adventure: A Romance
Richard Bird
The Gay Adventure: A Romance is a whimsical, episodic tale that begins with a restless young man named Tony…
ReadGulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World” is a satirical fantasy framed…
ReadCynthia's Chauffeur
Louis Tracy
Cynthia’s Chauffeur is a turn‑of‑the‑century romance that places a British aristocrat and his steadfast…
ReadPamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects
William Hone
ReadDie Sternbuben in der Großstadt: Eine heitere Geschichte
Josephine Siebe
Der Roman ist ein heiteres Jugendstück, das das Leben von Jungen in einer kleinen Stadt schildert.
ReadThe Book of Ballads Eleventh Edition, 1870
Martin, Theodore, Sir; Aytoun, William Edmondstoune
The Book of Ballads, Eleventh Edition (1870) is a miscellany of verse and parody assembled by Sir Theodore…
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ReadLove and Freindship [sic]
Jane Austen
Love and Friendship is an early epistolary work that presents itself as a series of letters exchanged among a…
ReadRoughing It
Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s *Roughing It* is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a series of episodic adventures…
ReadWinnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne
The book is a whimsical collection of juvenile tales that centers on the beloved animal characters of the…
Occasion ... for Disaster
Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.
This story is a mid‑century science‑fiction tale that blends bureaucratic intrigue with a hint of the…
Miss Mapp
E. F. Benson
The novel is a comic portrait of English genteel life, centered on the petty rivalries and convivial banter…
The Green Mouse
Robert W. Chambers
The Green Mouse is a whimsical blend of fantasy and early‑twentieth‑century New York society, framed as a…
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
Laurence Sterne
The work is an experimental, stream‑of‑consciousness novel that treats the very act of narration as a series…
The Daughter of Anderson Crow
George Barr McCutcheon
The Daughter of Anderson Crow is a slice‑of‑life novel set in a small New York State town, where the everyday…
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, translated into English and illustrated by Norman…
ReadThe Seven Dials mystery
Agatha Christie
The Seven Dials mystery is a detective story set in an English country house, featuring the fictional…
ReadLove's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare
The play opens in the royal park of Navarre, where King Ferdinand gathers his courtiers, Berowne, Longaville…