Humorous stories books

A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

The opening of *A Room with a View* places the reader amid a noisy dinner table in a Florentine pension,…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The book is a humorous, coming‑of‑age adventure that follows Huck Finn as he slips away from the Widow…

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

The work is a comic, eighteenth‑century novel that treats the growth of a young man from foundling to adult…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain

The work is a humorous bildungsroman that follows the misadventures of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in a…

Emma

Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse is introduced as a handsome, clever, and wealthy young woman whose life has been marked by…

Torchy and Vee

Sewell Ford

Torchy and Vee is a collection of short, humor‑tinged stories set against the backdrop of World War I…

Miss Mapp

E. F. Benson

The novel is a comic portrait of English genteel life, centered on the petty rivalries and convivial banter…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The work is a whimsical fantasy set among talking animals, blending gentle humor with a pastoral English…

Penrod

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington’s Penrod is a comic coming‑of‑age tale set in the American Midwest, and the opening chapter…

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers presents itself as a comic chronicle of a small English club and its eccentric members as…

The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan

Daisy Ashford

The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena’s Plan is a whimsical, self‑conscious novel that proudly advertises its…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The book is a whimsical fantasy set in an English countryside where animals speak and behave like genteel…

The Peterkin Papers

Lucretia P. Hale

The Peterkin Papers is a collection of light‑hearted family sketches that began as a simple postal‑card idea.

The Magic Pudding

Norman Lindsay

Shorty McCabe on the Job

Sewell Ford

The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton

Wardon Allan Curtis

The Girl on the Boat

P. G. Wodehouse

Vice Versa; or, A Lesson to Fathers

F. Anstey

Shorty McCabe

Sewell Ford

The Cheerful Smugglers

Ellis Parker Butler

Susan Clegg and a Man in the House

Anne Warner

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

Mister Galgenstrick: und andere Humoresken

Karl Ettlinger

Dead Souls

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol