Humour

A Young Man in a Hurry, and Other Short Stories

Robert W. Chambers

The volume is a collection of short stories by Robert W. Chambers, whose work often captures the rhythms of…

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition

P. T. Ross

A Yeoman’s Letters is a first‑hand collection of wartime correspondence by P. T.

The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

William Makepeace Thackeray

The second volume of William Makepeace Thackeray’s The History of Pendennis continues the comic,…

Betty Wales, Senior

Edith K. Dunton

The novel is the senior installment of Edith K. Dunton’s “Betty Wales” series, a continuation of the…

Side Show Studies

Francis Metcalfe

The work is a lively, episodic tale set amid the chaotic bustle of a turn‑of‑the‑century amusement park.

Aunt Jo's scrap bag, Volume 2: Shawl-straps

Louisa May Alcott

Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, Volume 2: $b Shawl‑straps is a lively, episodic tale that follows three American women,…

Fibble, D.D.

Irvin S. Cobb

The work is a comic sketch in the guise of a memoir, presented as the first‑person account of a…

The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale

Owen Wister

The work is a juvenile fairy‑tale adventure set in a medieval manor, where the everyday bustle of…

The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

The volume presents Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor as part of the Cambridge edition of the…

The Corner House Girls at School

Grace Brooks Hill

The Corner House Girls at School is a lively juvenile tale that follows the four Kenway sisters, Ruth, Tess,…

Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike

Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Roy Blakeley's Bee‑line Hike is a raucous slice of early‑20th‑century Boy Scout fiction, written by Percy…

Terribly Intimate Portraits

Noël Coward

Terribly Intimate Portraits is a collection of whimsical sketches that blend autobiographical diary entries…

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume I

This anthology gathers the most representative pieces of American wit, from the celebrated sketches of…

Mister Galgenstrick: und andere Humoresken

Karl Ettlinger

Der Band ist eine Sammlung von humorvollen Kurzgeschichten, die das Leben in den deutschen Provinzen Hessen…

Penguin Persons & Peppermints

Walter Prichard Eaton

Walter Prichard Eaton’s Penguin Persons & Peppermins is a collection of essays that reads like a series of…

The Biglow Papers

James Russell Lowell

The work is James Russell Lowell’s The Biglow Papers, a series of politically charged poems that lampoon the…

Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman

Francis Hopkinson Smith

The work is a Southern‑style Christmas tale that opens with a flashback to a bitter rivalry between Colonel…

The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems

Alexander Pope

This volume presents a compact yet comprehensive selection of Alexander Pope’s most celebrated poems,…

Tres Comedias: Sin querer; De pequenas causas...; Los intereses creados

Jacinto Benavente

This volume gathers three of Jacinto Benavente’s short comedies, Sin querer, De pequeñas causas…, and Los…

The Wit of Women Fourth Edition

Kate Sanborn

The Wit of Women" is a curated anthology that sets out to prove, with a blend of humor and scholarship, that…

The Wallypug in London

G. E. Farrow

The work is a whimsical children’s fantasy that begins with an unexpected, solemn hymn to Queen Victoria…

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain

The book is a comic travel narrative that follows an American adventurer who decides, in March 1878, to trek…

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive

Alfred Burnett

Incidents of the War is a collection of letters, sketches and anecdotes by Alfred Burnett, a Cincinnati‑based…

The Keepers of the King's Peace

Edgar Wallace

The opening of The Keepers of the King’s Peace places the reader in a remote African village called Isongo,…