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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 William Merriam Rouse

by Antonio Ghislanzoni

by Rex Beach

by Rudolf Erich Raspe

by Fritz Reuter

by John Habberton

by Israel Zangwill

by Sewell Ford

by Barry Pain

by Meredith Nicholson

by James Russell Lowell

by Charles Dickens

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

by Molière

by Mark Twain

by Thomas Ingoldsby

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

by Morley Roberts

by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland

by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

by Denis Diderot

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Mark Twain

by John Leech

by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell

by Laurence Housman

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

by George William Curtis

by Mark Twain

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Dion Clayton Calthrop, Harley Granville-Barker
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Finley Peter Dunne

by John Leighton

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Robert Cruikshank, George Cruikshank, Robert Seymour

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Various Authors

by B. M. Bower

by Various Authors

by Wilhelm Busch

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by William Dean Howells

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Various Authors

by O. Douglas

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Henry Drummond

by Various Authors

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Desiderius Erasmus

by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

by Heman White Chaplin

by Bernard Shaw

by John Hartley

by Charles Monselet

by Jonathan Swift

by George Grossmith

by Robert F. Young

by William Combe

by John Hartley

by Laura Rountree Smith

by Harry Warner

by comte de Auguste Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

by Mark Twain

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Sarah Catherine Martin

by Molière

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Kate Sanborn

by Théodore Faullain de Banville

by Mark Twain

by Ring Lardner

by Keith Laumer

by Nixon Waterman

by Howard Roger Garis

by Pansy

by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Whitfield) Bellamy

by Richard McKenna

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

by Laurence Sterne

by Octave Mirbeau

by Charles Battell Loomis

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Will Mohler

by Alfred Döblin

by Maiju Lassila