Humour

Thistledown: A Book of Scotch Humour, Character, Folk-lore, Story & Anecdote

Robert Ford

Robert Ford’s Thistledown is a wide‑ranging anthology of Scottish wit, assembled to showcase the nation’s…

The Imaginary Invalid

Molière

The work is a French comedy of the seventeenth‑century stage, known as The Imaginary Invalid, in which…

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The work is a series of conversational essays that first appeared in the New‑England Magazine in the early…

Greener Than You Think

Ward Moore

Greener Than You Think is a science‑fiction novella that launches with a rambling, first‑person monologue…

The Law of Hotel Life; or, the Wrongs and Rights of Host and Guest

R. Vashon Rogers

The Law of Hotel Life is a nineteenth‑century legal handbook that frames the rights and duties of innkeepers,…

The Tale of Rusty Wren

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Rusty Wren is a juvenile story that centers on the everyday adventures of a busy little wren and…

The Inspector-General

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The Inspector‑General is a comedy of Russian drama that quickly establishes its cultural weight by…

Chapters from My Autobiography

Mark Twain

The work is an autobiographical fragment by Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, drawn from a…

Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and Quotations

The handbook presents itself as a practical rescue kit for anyone who must deliver a toast on short notice,…

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

T. Smollett

The work is a picaresque adventure that follows the reluctant merchant Peregrine Pickle as he abandons a…

The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood A New and Complete Edition

Thomas Hood

The work is a comprehensive edition of Thomas Hood’s comic poems, assembled to showcase the breadth of his…

Der Zauberkaftan

Kálmán Mikszáth

Der Roman „Der Zauberkaftan“ von Kálmán Mikszáth ist ein historischer Schwank, der das turbulente Leben in…

All Things Considered

G. K. Chesterton

All Things Considered gathers a series of essays that G. K.

Every Man in His Humor

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humour is a late‑Elizabethan comedy that opens with a brisk exposition of its…

Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series

James Williams

The work is a whimsical hybrid of legal treatise and verse, titled Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second…

The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The volume gathers a series of Mark Twain’s short, humor‑laden sketches of American life, and it opens in the…

Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2)

Lucius M. Sargent

The work is a nineteenth‑century miscellany on death, funerary customs, and the occasional macabre anecdote.

Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2

Charles Lever

The work is a sprawling, first‑person narrative set amid the Irish garrison towns of the Peninsular War era,…

Puzzles and oddities: Found floating on the surface of our current literature, or tossed to dry land by the waves of memory

An outline of humor Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth century

An Outline of Humor presents itself as a sweeping survey of wit from the earliest recorded jokes to the turn…

The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits

Lewis Carroll

The work is a whimsical, eight‑part nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, catalogued under “Nonsense verses” and…

Parodies of the works of English & American authors, vol. I

This volume is a nineteenth‑century anthology that gathers a wide range of comic imitations of well‑known…

My man Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The work is a collection of light‑hearted, English‑centric tales that revolve around the inimitable valet…