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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 Douglas William Jerrold

by Robert Seymour

by Hugh Lofting

by Marshall Saunders

by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe

by Thomas S. (Thomas Stewart) Denison

by Frank Banta

by Alfred Coppel

by B. M. Bower

by Christoph Martin Wieland

by Claus Stamm

by Molière

by Jalmari Finne

by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

by Howard Roger Garis

by Edgar Wallace

by George Alexander Stevens

by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

by Saki

by Washington Irving

by Lewis Carroll

by Edward Lear

by Edward Lear

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
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by O. Henry

by Bret Harte

by Richmal Crompton

by Dr. (John) Doran

by Irving Bacheller

by Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) Sargent

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Herman Melville

by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

by Stephen Leacock

by Gustave Flaubert

by Max O'Rell

by Arthur Jerome Eddy

by E. M. (Edmund McKenzie) Sneyd-Kynnersley

by John Gay, John Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Elaine Wilber

by Richard Harding Davis

by Various Authors

by Helen Hunt Jackson

by Charles Eustace Merriman

by Anthony Hope

by Sewell Ford

by Henry Slesar

by Ring Lardner

by C. C. MacApp

by Max O'Rell

by Wilhelm Busch

by William Dean Howells

by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

by James Branch Cabell

by Jack Sharkey

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Christopher Morley

by Various Authors

by Charles Macklin

by Various Authors

by Charles Miner Thompson

by Ellen M. Whishaw

by Various Authors

by T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) Pemberton

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Various Authors
by Various Authors

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Various Authors

by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

by Wallace Irwin

by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann, Bettina von Arnim, Adolph Bayersdorfer, Friedrich Theodor Fischer, Ludwig Thoma, Henry F. Urban

by Mark Clifton

by Unknown

by Brada

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Paul de Kock

by Robert Seymour

by Mark Twain

by Robert Moore Williams

by Jean de La Fontaine

by John Habberton

by Howard Roger Garis

by Giambattista della Porta

by Booth Tarkington, Hugh MacNair Kahler, Kenneth Lewis Roberts

by D.C.) Gridiron Club (Washington