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Step into a bookshelf where wit sharpens its knives, satire turns the world upside down, and the absurd feels startlingly true. Here, moon voyages, impossible adventures, mock-epics, and razor-edged dictionaries of received ideas collide in a carnival of cleverness. Expect wordplay, mischief, and laughter with a bite—humour at its boldest, strangest, and most delightfully unruly.

by Royall Tyler

by Ben Jonson

by Ben Jonson

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Paul Heyse

by Ludvig Holberg

by Ada Leverson

by Frank R. Stockton

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Ben Jonson

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by George Barr McCutcheon

by W. C. Morrow, Edward Cucuel

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Robert Montgomery Bird

by Molière

by Clemens Brentano, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann, Heinrich Zschokke

by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow

by Ben Jonson

by Cyrano de Bergerac

by Zsigmond Móricz

by Robert Smith Surtees

by Royall Tyler

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by Various Authors

by Ludwig Thoma

by Hermann Löns

by Anonymous

by N. S. (Nikolai Semenovich) Leskov

by Louis Becke

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by John Oxenford

by Various Authors

by Molière

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Jacinto Benavente

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Elsie Duncan Yale

by Mark Twain

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Various Authors

by Alexander Pope

by Various Authors

by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by Andrew Lang

by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

by Honoré de Balzac

by Théroigne de Méricourt

by Heinrich Zschokke
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by Jane Austen

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by B. M. Bower

by Friedrich Schiller

by Herman Heijermans
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by Friedrich Schiller, L.-B. (Louis-Benoît) Picard

by Bernard Shaw

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Wilhelm Raabe

by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by Various Authors

by Ernst Eckstein

by Heikki Korhonen

by Henry Fielding

by Heinrich von Kleist

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Jean Paul

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

by Various Authors

by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

by Marietta Holley

by Théophile Gautier

by Miriam Allen De Ford

by Mark Twain

by Antoine de La Sale

by Carl Jacobi

by Aristophanes

by Saki

by Various Authors

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Emile Gaboriau

by Otto Ernst Schmidt

by Henry Arthur Jones

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Edith Wharton

by Washington Irving

by Francisco de Paula de Figueiredo

by Alfred Assollant