Humour

Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil

Frank E. Smedley

The Tale of Tom Kitten

Beatrix Potter

Curious Epitaphs

Curious Epitaphs is a collection of funerary verses that celebrate the ordinary tradesmen, engineers, and…

The humour of Ireland

The Inimitable Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The Inimitable Jeeves is a collection of witty, light‑hearted tales that centre on the idle aristocrat Bertie…

Carry On, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The work is a collection of comic short stories set in the world of British high society, featuring the…

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki

The volume gathers Saki’s witty, short‑form tales that blend everyday society with a thin veil of the…

The Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes

Mrs. W. G. Waters

The Cook’s Decameron is a culinary handbook that frames its extensive collection of Italian recipes within a…

The So-called Human Race

Bert Leston Taylor

The So‑Called Human Race is a collection of witty snippets, quips and short observations that originally…

Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2

George Daniel

Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2 is a sprawling anthology of early‑modern English folklore, ballads,…

The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo

Thomas Nash

The work is a late‑Elizabethan bawdy poem, preserved only in manuscript copies that surface in the Bodleian…

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences” is a polemical work of literary criticism that sets…

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Erich Raspe

The work is a collection of humorous, wildly exaggerated travel narratives that belong to the…

The Complete Works of Josh Billings

Josh Billings

The Complete Works of Josh Billings gathers the prolific output of Henry W.

The Ship of Fools, Volume 1

Sebastian Brant

The volume presents the first part of Sebastian Brant’s celebrated satire, The Ship of Fools, in a scholarly…

The Tale of Fatty Coon

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Fatty Coon is a juvenile animal story that follows the adventures of a plump raccoon living with…

Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I.

Jean Paul

This volume is the first part of Jean Paul’s sprawling romance “Hesperus; or, Forty‑Five Dog‑Post‑Days,” a…

Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914

Charles L. Graves

Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4) is a continuation of Charles L.

The Chronicles of Clovis

Saki

The Chronicles of Clovis gathers Saki’s short‑story satire into a single volume, opening with a reflective…

Burlesques

William Makepeace Thackeray

Burlesques is a sprawling, episodic work of 19th‑century English fiction that begins with a lofty, myth‑laden…

Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Romances offers a sweeping collection of the French author’s short fictional works, rendered into…

The Comic History of England

Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

The work is a deliberately humorous survey of English history, presented as a “comic” rather than a scholarly…

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992

The Jargon File, version 2.9.10 (dated 01 Jul 1992), is a self‑described “collection of slang terms used by…

Apocolocyntosis

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The work presented under the title Apocolocyntosis is a satirical piece traditionally linked to Seneca,…