Humour

Jerry's Charge Account

Hazel Hutchins Wilson

Hazel Hutchins Wilson’s Jerry’s Charge Account is a light‑hearted juvenile novel that follows the everyday…

Christmas Every Day and Other Stories

William Dean Howells

The volume is a collection of William Dean Howells’s short stories, and it opens with a sprawling,…

Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.

The volume is a collected anthology of the political and satirical verse that appeared in the short‑lived…

A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812

George Alexander Stevens

The work is a hybrid of lecture, satire, and theatrical sketch, presented as the text of a public address…

The Tale of Jolly Robin

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Jolly Robin is a juvenile fiction story that follows a young robin’s early life in a nest, his…

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and His Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, Through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life (1821)

Badcock, John, active 1816-1830; Egan, Pierce

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is a satirical, didactic work that masquerades as the “Life and Opinions of…

Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates

Charles S. Brooks

The work is a stage comedy that lampoons the conventions of pirate drama while indulging in the theatrical…

The Perfect Gentleman

Ralph Bergengren

The work is an essay‑like meditation on the elusive ideal of the “Perfect Gentleman,” opening with a witty…

The New Pun Book

The New Pun Book is a collection of brief, dialogue‑driven sketches that revel in wordplay.

She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy

Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night” opens with a self‑referential…

More toasts: Jokes, stories and quotations

More Toasts is a supplemental anthology of jokes, quotations and short stories aimed at the modern…

Nonsense Books

Edward Lear

The work opens with a generous encomium from the Victorian critic John Ruskin, who crowns Edward Lear’s…

Remarks

Bill Nye

Bill Nye’s “Remarks” is a self‑styled compendium of wit, anecdote, and assorted observations, presented as…

Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman opens with a sprawling, self‑referential address that frames the play as a…

Facecies et motz subtilz, d'aucuns excellens esprits et tresnobles seigneurs

Lodovico Domenichi

Ce recueil se présente comme une anthologie d’anecdotes et de bons mots tirés de conversations et de lettres…

Mark Twain's Speeches

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Buster Bear

Thornton W. Burgess

The story introduces Buster Bear, a big‑hearted bear who awakens in the Green Forest and spends the morning…

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

The volume presents a sprawling anthology of literary pastiches compiled in 1886, marketed as a “critical…

The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck-Me-In Tales

Arthur Scott Bailey

The Tale of Jasper Jay Tuck‑Me‑In Tales is a lively juvenile story that centers on a boisterous jay who roams…

The Aeroplane Speaks. Fifth Edition

H. Barber

The Aeroplane Speaks is a practical manual for early aviators, written by Horatio Barber, an experienced…

The History of "Punch"

M. H. Spielmann

The History of “Punch” is a scholarly study of the nineteenth‑century British satirical weekly, assembled by…

Mr. Punch's History of the Great War

Charles L. Graves

Mr. Punch’s History of the Great War is a pictorial chronicle that blends the satirical spirit of the famed…

Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers."

George Colman

Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse is a self‑conscious, miscellany‑style work that…