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Nanzhuang Zhang

Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William

Booth Tarkington

The novel is a youthful coming‑of‑age tale set in a midsized Midwestern town, tracking seventeen‑year‑old…

The book of Edinburgh anecdote

Francis Watt

The book of Edinburgh anecdote is a collection of historical sketches centered on the Parliament House and…

The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04

of Samosata Lucian

The volume presents Lucian’s extended treatise on the dangers of slander, opening with a vivid condemnation…

Seeing Things at Night

Heywood Broun

Heywood Broun’s Seeing Things at Night is a miscellany of essays, newspaper reprints, and occasional fiction,…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

François Rabelais

The third volume of François Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel is a sprawling, comic work that blends…

Leave it to Psmith

P. G. Wodehouse

Leave it to Psmith is a light‑hearted caper set among the eccentric aristocracy of Blandings Castle, where a…

Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, The Indiscreet Toys

Denis Diderot

The work is an eighteenth‑century French erotic satire, attributed to Denis Diderot, that blends ribald…

Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be

The work is a sprawling biographical compendium that treats fame as a public‑service, admitting only those…

Further Chronicles of Avonlea

L. M. Montgomery

Further Chronicles of Avonlea gathers fifteen short stories that extend L. M.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

François Rabelais

This volume is the fourth installment of François Rabelais’s gargantuan saga, a satirical tour de force that…

The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes

Falconbridge

The Humors of Falconbridge is a mid‑nineteenth‑century compilation of short, comic sketches that capture…

Mike and Psmith

P. G. Wodehouse

Mike and Psmith is a comic school story that pits the brilliant cricketer Mike, freshly expelled from the…

Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair is a seventeenth‑century English comedy that opens not with a conventional…

A Satire Anthology

This volume gathers a broad sweep of satirical verse and prose, beginning with a brief introductory essay…

When Ghost Meets Ghost

William De Morgan

When Ghost Meets Ghost is a sprawling, episodic novel set in a fictional London neighbourhood that the author…

Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations With Portrait and Biographical Sketch

The volume is a compendium of four hundred of John Leech’s caricatures, each paired with a short biographical…

Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience A Collection of Short Selections, Stories and Sketches for All Occasions

This volume is a practical guide and anthology for anyone who must speak before a crowd, whether on a public…

The Wrong Twin

Harry Leon Wilson

The Wrong Twin is a humorous, slice‑of‑life story set in the small Midwestern town of Newbern Center, where…

Just—William

Richmal Crompton

The book is a comic slice of early‑twentieth‑century British childhood, starring William Brown, the…

The Beaux-Stratagem

George Farquhar

The Beaux‑Stratagem is a Restoration comedy by George Farquhar, first staged in March 1707 at the Queen’s…

The Rose and the Ring

William Makepeace Thackeray

The work is a whimsical fairy‑tale framed as a Victorian “fireside pantomime.” It opens with a festive…

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller’s Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times is a polemical poetry collection…

The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green

Cuthbert Bede

The work is a comic university novel set in mid‑nineteenth‑century Oxford, written by Cuthbert Bede under the…