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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 Jean de La Fontaine

by Mark Twain

by Blythe Harding

by Tristan Bernard

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

by Earl Derr Biggers

by Carlo Gozzi

by Edna I. MacKenzie

by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Aleksis Kivi

by Molière

by Molière

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Jean Webster

by Heinrich Hoffmann

by Mark Twain

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Andrew Lang

by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

by Edward Lear

by James Williams

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Kurt Vonnegut

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne

by Charles Lever

by Thomas Hardy

by Charles Dickens

by George A. (George Alexander) Morton, D. Macleod (Donald Macleod) Malloch

by Joel Chandler Harris

by Frederick Marryat

by Charles Lever

by A. Marsh

by Catherine (Catherine M.) Cotton

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Percy Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens

by Lilian Bell

by Palmer Cox

by Winifred Hawkridge Dixon

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Eugène Le Gai, Pierre-Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis

by Zora Neale Hurston

by Frank R. Stockton

by Josh Billings

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Various Authors

by Edward S. (Edward Sims) Van Zile

by Hilaire Belloc

by Rudolf Erich Raspe, Gottfried August Bürger

by Bret Harte

by John Galsworthy

by Maurice Baring

by Fanny Fern

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Nicolau T. Leroy

by Anatole France

by Molière

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Mary Russell Mitford

by Various Authors

by Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler

by Pierre Mille

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by François Rabelais

by D. (Davison) Dalziel

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Richmal Crompton

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by George Griswold Livermore

by Wilkie Collins

by Washington Irving

by Various Authors

by Mark Twain

by William Dean Howells

by Charles Heber Clark

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Camilla Kenyon

by Helen Rowland

by Voltaire

by Otto Julius Bierbaum, Gorch Fock, Rudolf Presber, Wilhelm Schäfer, Karl Schönherr, Ludwig Thoma

by Berkeley Livingston

by Mark Twain