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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 Crafty

by Alexander Pope

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Arthur Wing Pinero

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Rupert Hughes

by Ben Hecht, Maxwell Bodenheim

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Ernst Eckstein

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Mark Twain

by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

by Roy Norton

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Mark Twain

by James Lane Allen

by Frank Banta

by An M. D.

by Various Authors

by Eino Leino

by William E. Suter

by Mark Twain

by Molière

by Irwin Leslie Gordon

by Bernard Shaw

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Eleanor Gates

by W. Friedrich, Jean-François-Alfred Bayard, Gustave Lemoine

by Mark Twain

by R. W. Major

by John Victor Peterson

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Montague Glass

by Lewis Carroll

by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Anne Warner

by Petronius Arbiter

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Charles Lamb

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Alain René Le Sage

by Alexandre Dumas

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by W. Heath (William Heath) Robinson

by Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey) Head

by Alphonse Allais

by Hal Annas

by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

by Andrew Lang

by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

by George A. Birmingham

by Earl Derr Biggers

by Bill Nye, James Whitcomb Riley

by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

by Henry Fielding

by Anonymous

by Ring Lardner

by Don Marquis

by George Fitch

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Harry Harrison

by Richard Penn

by Bruce Bairnsfather

by Colley Cibber

by Jack McKenty

by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite

by Alice M. (Alice Maud) Winlow, Kathryn Pocklington

by William Shakespeare

by Louis Ulbach

by Marietta Holley

by Alfred Assollant

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Frank R. Stockton

by Honoré Beaugrand

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Molière

by John Habberton

by William Dean Howells

by Various Authors

by Anatole France

by John Arthur Barry

by Jeffery Farnol

by Randall Garrett

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by John Kendrick Bangs

by W. L. (William Livingston) Alden
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by Various Authors