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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 Cyrano de Bergerac

by Alexander Pope

by Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis, Eugène Le Gai

by Gustave Flaubert

by Pierre Dufay

by Georges Fourest

by Pierre Gallet

by Jonathan Swift

by Béroalde de Verville

by Gottfried August Bürger, Rudolf Erich Raspe

by Paul Scarron

by Anonymous

by Félix Galipaux

by J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste) Pérès

by Emile Bergerat

by Béroalde de Verville

by maistre de Cambray Fouquart, Antoine Duval, active 14th century d'Arras Jean

by Béroalde de Verville

by Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne

by Anonymous

by Pierre Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu, comte de A. (Alphonse) Fortia de Piles

by Mark Twain

by William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

by Oliver Goldsmith

by Molière

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Lewis Carroll

by Mrs. W. G. Waters

by Ben Jonson

by Molière

by William Congreve

by Charles Dudley Warner

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by William Congreve

by John Arbuthnot

by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

by William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

by William Dean Howells

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare

by Alain René Le Sage

by William Shakespeare

by Ludwig Anzengruber

by Rose Macaulay

by William Dean Howells

by William Dean Howells

by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell, Lady Florence Elsa Bell Richmond

by James Sheridan Knowles

by Molière

by William Shakespeare

by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

by John O'Keeffe

by Roderich Benedix

by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by Compton MacKenzie

by François Rabelais

by Ambrose Bierce

by Edward Lear

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Aristophanes

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by George Washington Plunkitt

by Bernard Shaw

by Donald Ogden Stewart

by Tom Taylor

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Various Authors

by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

by Stephen Leacock

by Anthony Trollope

by Eugene Field

by Donald Ogden Stewart

by William Shakespeare

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Andrew Lang

by Various Authors

by Ian Hay

by Robert Williams Wood

by John Lydgate

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Royall Tyler

by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville, Martin Ross