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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 Ralph Sholto

by Douglas English

by Lilian Bell

by Mark Twain

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Ben Jonson

by Edmond About

by graf Leo Tolstoy

by Various Authors

by François Rabelais

by François Rabelais

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Ambrose Bierce

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Christian Morgenstern

by Daniel Defoe

by Rupert Hughes

by Edward Lear

by Sir Max Beerbohm

by Sheng Lü

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

by John Benson Rose, John Gay

by Edmond About

by Alphonse Karr

by Mark Twain

by Ruth Plumly Thompson

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

by Jules Gabriel Janin

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville, Martin Ross

by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
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by William Congreve

by Sewell Ford

by Helen Rowland

by Ambrose Bierce
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by Sir Theodore Martin, William Edmondstoune Aytoun

by Eugene Field

by Holman Day

by Various Authors

by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Alphonse Karr

by Edward Hamilton Aitken

by Various Authors

by Mark Twain

by Harry Harrison

by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

by Various Authors

by Ernest d' Hervilly

by Mark Twain

by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

by Clara Dillingham Pierson

by Sewell Ford

by Alphonse Daudet

by John Bate

by James Branch Cabell

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Charles Lever

by Armando Palacio Valdés

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by Bracebridge Hemyng

by Various Authors

by Henry Walcott Boynton

by J. Irwin (John Irwin) Brown

by William Shakespeare

by Various Authors

by William Shakespeare

by C. J. (Clarence James) Dennis

by Various Authors

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Florence A. (Florence Antoinette) Kilpatrick

by Claude Mancey

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Paul de Kock

by Georges Fourest

by Emil Frommel

by Edgar Allan Poe

by Various Authors

by Percy MacKaye

by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow

by Charles Lever

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Eça de Queirós

by Bill Nye

by Murray Leinster

by John Petch Hewby

by W. A. (William Albert) Frisbie