Humour

Hay fever: A light comedy in three acts

Noël Coward

Hay fever is a light‑hearted three‑act comedy by Noël Coward that opens in the cluttered, flower‑filled hall…

The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood

Various

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2

François Rabelais

The work is the second volume of François Rabelais’s gargantuan saga, a French‑origin fantasy that follows…

Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious

Edward Spencer

Spencer’s Cakes & Ale presents itself as a sprawling dissertation on banquets, peppered with recipes that…

The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly

Charles Lever

The novel is a Victorian‑era social satire set against the backdrop of an Irish coastal estate that was…

The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life of Jack Wilton With an Essay on the Life and Writings of Thomas Nash by Edmund Gosse

Thomas Nash

The volume presents a scholarly portrait of Thomas Nash, an obscure Elizabethan writer whose surviving works…

The Poetaster

Ben Jonson

The Poetaster is a satirical comedy that opens with a sprawling biographical sketch of Ben Jonson, tracing…

Trips to the Moon

of Samosata Lucian

Lucian’s “Trips to the Moon” is a collection of his witty, satirical dialogues that mock the pretensions of…

Table traits, with something on them

Dr. Doran

Literary Lapses

Stephen Leacock

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

Charles Dudley Warner

Peck's Compendium of Fun Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist

George W. Peck

The Wrong Box

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Osbourne, Lloyd

Goethe and Schiller's Xenions

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Schiller, Friedrich

Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises

Donald Ogden Stewart

Quotes and Images From The Works of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography

Mark Twain

Round the Block: An American Novel

John Bell Bouton

Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands

Charles Lever

Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883

George W. Peck

Every Man out of His Humour

Ben Jonson

Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 1

George Daniel

'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts

Spokeshave

Pigs is Pigs

Ellis Parker Butler