Humour

Fetzen: Aus der abenteuerlichen Chronika eines Überflüssigen

Alexander Weicker

Der Text ist ein experimentelles, selbstreflexives Werk, das sich als „Chronika eines Überflüssigen“ versteht…

Right Ho, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

The novel is a comic romp centred on the idle aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves, a…

Lady Luck

Hugh Wiley

The novel opens in a bustling Memphis train station, where the narrator, a street‑wise figure who calls…

Palvelusväkeä: Yksinäytöksinen huvinäytelmä

Roderich Benedix

Tämä on Roderich Benedixin kirjoittama yhden näytöksen huvinäytelmä, jonka otsikossa jo viitataan…

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete

Various

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1 is a Victorian satirical periodical that began its first half‑year…

Grimm Tales Made Gay

Guy Wetmore Carryl

Grimm Tales Made Gay is a humor‑infused reworking of familiar fairy‑tale motifs, assembled by Guy Wetmore…

The Madness of May

Meredith Nicholson

The Madness of May is a New York‑set work of fiction that plunges the reader straight into a feverish…

Parodies of the works of English & American authors, vol. V

The volume is a scholarly compilation of nineteenth‑century parodies that target the poems of Thomas Gray,…

Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2

Joseph Grego

Rowlandson the Caricaturist, Volume 2 is a reference work that gathers the titles of Thomas Rowlandson’s…

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete

Marietta Holley

The work is a humorous, polemical pamphlet that frames a debate over women’s role in the Methodist “Meetin’…

Something Else Again

Franklin P. Adams

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Bibliomania is a bibliographical romance that treats the feverish love of books as a curable disease.

Eve's Diary, Complete

Mark Twain

Eve’s Diary, Complete is a whimsical, pseudo‑historical diary that imagines the first woman as a curious…

Fruits of Culture

Leo Tolstoy

Fruits of Culture is a Russian drama translated into English, presenting the opening act of a bustling Moscow…

Spare Hours

John Brown

Spare Hours is a miscellany of essays, sketches and anecdotes assembled by the Edinburgh‑born physician John…

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

Henry M. Brooks

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4 gathers “quaint and curious advertisements” taken from the archives of Boston…

Max und Moritz: Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen

Wilhelm Busch

Dieses Werk ist eine humorvolle Kinderpoesie, die in sieben „Streichen“ das ungezogene Treiben von Max und…

Des Feldpredigers Schmelzle Reise nach Flätz mit fortgehenden Noten

Jean Paul

Der Text ist ein satirischer Zirkelbrief des fiktiven Feldpredigers Schmelzle, in dem er seine angebliche…

Lincoln's yarns and stories: A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller

Alexander K. McClure

The volume presents a curated anthology of Abraham Lincoln’s “yarns, stories, droll sayings, and witty…

The Honourable Mr. Tawnish

Jeffery Farnol

The Honourable Mr. Tawnish is a Regency‑era social comedy set in the English countryside, where a group of…

Why They Married

James Montgomery Flagg

O Assassino de Macario: Comedia em tres actos

Camilo Castelo Branco

A peça “O Assassino de Macário” de Camilo Castelo Branco apresenta‑se como uma comédia em três atos,…

Lucian's True History

of Samosata Lucian

Lucian’s True History is a satirical travel narrative that launches its absurd adventure with a bold…

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

The volume presents a curated selection of American short stories whose chief aim is to combine literary…