Humour

The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book

William Makepeace Thackeray

Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street

Julian Street

Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman is a 17th‑century English comedy that foregrounds inheritance,…

The Acharnians

Aristophanes

Aristophanes’ The Acharnians is a Greek comedy that opens in the bustling Athenian assembly, where the weary…

English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2)

John Ashton

The volume gathers a series of English caricatures and satirical prints aimed at Napoleon I, compiled by John…

"Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner In England

Robert Smith Surtees

The work is a sprawling Victorian comedy of manners that opens with a satirical portrait of Billy Pringle, a…

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

G. K. Chesterton

The novel is a satirical fantasy that begins with a sprawling meditation on humanity’s habit of treating the…

The Story of a Bad Boy

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The work presents itself as a juvenile narrative centered on a mischievous New England boy, deliberately…

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete

Charles Lever

The work is a sprawling, first‑person memoir that blends military anecdote with social satire.

Rolling Stones

O. Henry

The volume titled Rolling Stone collects the final batch of O.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

François Rabelais

The work is a French Renaissance romance that blends giant folklore with a vivid, satirical imagination.

The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

P. G. Wodehouse

The volume gathers a series of short, humor‑laden tales by P. G.

Alarms and Discursions

G. K. Chesterton

Alarms and Discursions is a collection of essays by G. K.

The Sunny Side of the Street

Marshall P. Wilder

Marshall P. Wilder’s The Sunny Side of the Street is a sprawling anthology of wit, anecdote, and personal…

Tom Sawyer Abroad

Mark Twain

The work is an adventure tale that follows Tom Sawyer after the river exploits that earned him fame and a…

Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 2 (of 4).—1857-1874

Charles L. Graves

Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England, Volume 2 (1857‑1874) is a chronologically organized survey of British…

1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors

Mark Twain

The work is a satirical, imagined dialogue set in Queen Elizabeth’s private chambers, where the monarch, Ben…

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

Lewis Carroll

The greedy book: A gastronomical anthology

Frank Schloesser

The Greedy Book is a sprawling gastronomic anthology that assembles essays, anecdotes, and historical…

"Gentlemen prefer blondes": The illuminating diary of a professional lady

Anita Loos

The work is a comic diary‑fiction narrated by a self‑styled “professional lady” who records her daily…

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a collection of short, humor‑laden episodes that…

Voyages to the Moon and the Sun

Cyrano de Bergerac

The work is a 17th‑century French satire that blends speculative science‑fiction with the flamboyant…

The American Claimant

Mark Twain

The work is a comic satire that pits the pomp of an English aristocratic lineage against the absurdity of an…

The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2

Charlotte Lennox

The work is an eighteenth‑century romance that presents itself as a genteel adventure of a young lady raised…