Humour

Kate Coventry: An Autobiography

G. J. Whyte-Melville

The work is a first‑person narrative that blends autobiographical reminiscence with the conventions of…

Pipefuls

Christopher Morley

Pipefuls is a collection of short, newspaper‑sourced sketches assembled by Christopher Morley in 1920.

Vice Versa; or, A Lesson to Fathers

F. Anstey

The work is a comic‑leaning tale that pits a pompous, self‑important father against the inevitable departure…

Elkan Lubliner, American

Montague Glass

The novel is a slice‑of‑life drama set in the bustling garment district of early‑twentieth‑century New York,…

Patty's Social Season

Carolyn Wells

Patty’s Social Season is a light‑hearted juvenile novel that follows a young New York debutante on the…

The Dude Wrangler

Caroline Lockhart

The Dude Wrangler is a comic‑leaning Western set in the genteel world of a seaside resort hotel, where the…

Officer 666

Currie, Barton Wood; McHugh, Augustin

Officer 666 is a comic romp set in the glittering confines of a luxury hotel, where a cascade of absurd…

Heads and tales: or, Anecdotes and stories of quadrupeds and other beasts, chiefly connected with incidents in the histories of more or less distinguished men.

The work is a sprawling anthology of animal anecdotes that treats the mammalian order as a series of amusing,…

Amusements in Mathematics

Henry Ernest Dudeney

Henry Ernest Dudeney’s Amusements in Mathematics is a collection of recreational puzzles that blends the…

At Good Old Siwash

George Fitch

George Fitch’s “At Good Old Siwash” is a comic romp through the imagined world of a college that never quite…

When Patty Went to College

Jean Webster

When Jean Webster’s When Patty Went to College opens, the reader is dropped into a bustling dormitory scene…

Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World

Owen Johnson

The work is a sprawling school‑boy novel that follows the mischievous Skippy Bedelle from his early, almost…

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2

Harry Furniss

Die seltsamen Geschichten des Doktor Ulebuhle

Bruno Hans Bürgel

Der Band ist eine Sammlung kurzer, naturwissenschaftlich angehauchter Erzählungen, die sich selbst als…

Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers

Anonymous

This volume is a compendium of jokes, witticisms, and anecdotes assembled under the banner of “American wit…

Shorty McCabe

Sewell Ford

Shorty McCabe is a comic, first‑person yarn set in the bustling underbelly of early‑20th‑century New York.

Bird of Paradise

Ada Leverson

The novel opens with an intimate portrait of Bertha, Mrs.

As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from His Letters to a Friend at Home

This work is a collection of letters written between 1892 and 1902 by a highly educated Chinese gentleman who…

The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century

Walter Runciman

Walter Runciman’s The Shellback’s Progress In the Nineteenth Century is a collection of sea stories written…

The Cheerful Smugglers

Ellis Parker Butler

The book is a comic sketch of domestic life that turns a family’s modest savings scheme into a parody of…

Sea urchins

W. W. Jacobs

Sea urchins is a bawdy, episodic tale of a rag‑tag crew and a mischievous youngster thrust aboard their…

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House

Anne Warner

The work is a humorous sketch of small‑town life, presented as a series of lively conversations between Susan…

The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection

Howard Roger Garis

The Curlytops and Their Pets is a lively juvenile tale that follows the Martin children, Janet, her brother…

A master of craft

W. W. Jacobs

The novel is a Victorian‑era seafaring romance that opens on a quiet evening at the Wapping wharf, where a…