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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 Maiju Lassila

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Laurence Sterne

by Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout) Cozzens

by Grace Brooks Hill

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by George Washington Plunkitt

by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Israel Zangwill

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Bernard Shaw

by Sir Max Beerbohm

by Henry Kuttner

by Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison

by Mark Twain
by Nanzhuang Zhang

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Myrtle Reed

by Heywood Broun

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by John J. (John Joseph) Jennings

by Thomas Brown

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Charles Dickens

by Donald Ogden Stewart

by William Shakespeare

by R. C. (Rudolf Chambers) Lehmann

by Nell Speed

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Mark Twain

by Christopher Morley, Bart Haley

by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

by Herbert George Jenkins

by Wilhelm Busch

by Jerome Bixby

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Ernest Glanville

by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Dane Coolidge

by Frank N. (Frank Nash) Westcott

by Catherine Sinclair

by Various Authors

by Frederic Stewart Isham

by Julia M. (Julia Moss) Sloane

by Various Authors

by Reginald Berkeley

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by James Whitcomb Riley

by William Shakespeare

by Mark Twain

by A. E. (Alfred Edwin) Johnson

by Seumas O'Brien

by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs, Charles Rock

by William Tenn

by Alexandre da Costa

by Various Authors

by F. Anstey

by Gordon Stables

by Nelson S. Bond

by Various Authors

by Mark Twain

by William P. McGivern

by Sax Rohmer

by Various Authors

by Alphonse Karr

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Wallace Irvin

by Mrs. Dowdall

by Béroalde de Verville

by of Samosata Lucian

by Eugene Field

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by James R. Adams

by Charles Battell Loomis

by Jay Clarke

by A. de Ville D'Avray

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

by Jean de La Fontaine

by William J. Kountz

by Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Frances) Guptill

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Henry Farrell

by Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Frances) Guptill

by Frederic Jesup Stimson

by Friedrich Eisenlohr, Livingstone Hahn, Ludwig Rubiner

by Paul Leicester Ford

by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

by August Blanche

by Louis Tracy

by George Barr McCutcheon