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Der Struwwelpeter oder lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder

Heinrich Hoffmann

Der Struwwelpeter ist ein illustrierter Kinder‑Bilderband aus dem Jahr 1844, in dem Heinrich Hoffmann, Arzt…

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

P. G. Wodehouse

The volume is a collection of humorous short pieces by P. G.

Reisontmoetingen van Joachim Polsbroekerwoud en zijne Vrienden

Bernardus Gewin

Dit werk is een mengeling van reisverslag, literaire herinnering en humoristische essay, geschreven door…

Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais

François Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel is a five‑volume French work rendered here in English, beginning…

Comic History of the United States

Bill Nye

Bill Nye’s Comic History of the United States is a illustrated survey that treats American events as a series…

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

John Earle

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered is a collection of brief character sketches that treats…

Penrod

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington’s Penrod is a comic coming‑of‑age tale set in the American Midwest, and the opening chapter…

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers presents itself as a comic chronicle of a small English club and its eccentric members as…

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages

P. T. Barnum

The work is a sprawling nonfiction survey in which the famed showman P. T.

Sketches New and Old

Mark Twain

Sketches New and Old is a miscellany of Twain’s short, comic pieces that lampoon the quirks of 19th‑century…

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II

Augustus De Morgan

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II gathers a miscellany of 19th‑century scientific polemics, ranging from…

Cautionary Tales for Children

Hilaire Belloc

Cautionary Tales for Children is a collection of moral verses aimed at youngsters between eight and fourteen,…

Happy Days

A. A. Milne

Happy Days is a miscellany of short pieces that blurs the line between theatrical sketch and prose vignette.

The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love

Henry; Ovid Fielding

The Lovers Assistant is Henry Fielding’s 1760 prose paraphrase of the first book of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria,…

Humorous Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough

Dorothy Scarborough’s Humorous Ghost Stories is a scholarly yet playful survey of how the specter has evolved…

Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)

Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)” is a comic travel narrative that begins…

De Zonderlinge Lotgevallen van Gil Blas van Santillano, deel 1 van 2 De Spaansche Avonturier

Alain René Le Sage

Dit is een avontuurlijke roman uit de 18e‑euwse Franse traditie, waarin de jonge Gil Blas van Santillano,…

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The volume is a curated selection of Cervantes Saavedra’s own sayings, proverbs and poetic excerpts,…

"And That's How It Was, Officer"

Ralph Sholto

The work is an epistolary science‑fiction romp that begins as a letter addressed to a police officer, in…

Daisy Ashford: Her Book

Ashford, Daisy; Ashford, Angela

This volume gathers the remaining short fiction of Daisy Ashford, the child author whose early work “The…

Supermind

Garrett, Randall; Janifer, Laurence M.

Supermind is a mid‑century science‑fiction thriller that blends bureaucratic intrigue with a hint of the…

Histoire amoureuse des Gaules; suivie des Romans historico-satiriques du XVIIe siècle, Tome I

Bussy, Roger de Rabutin, comte de

Ce volume rassemble l’« Histoire amoureuse des Gaules », pamphlet satirique de Roger de Rabutin, comte de…

Just Patty

Jean Webster

The novel is a school‑girl comedy set in a strict boarding‑school for adolescent girls, where the three…

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905

Various

Ainslee’s Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 is a periodical anthology that gathers short stories and poetry from a…