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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 John Petch Hewby

by W. A. (William Albert) Frisbie

by Abby Morton Diaz

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Charles Lever

by Ludwig Anzengruber

by Jerry Sohl

by Richard Harding Davis

by Jean Racine

by Various Authors

by Damon Knight

by Jr. Sam Merwin

by Oscar Fay Adams

by Georges Fourest

by J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste) Pérès

by Scott F. Grenville

by Samuel Ferguson

by Keith Laumer

by Justus Möser

by Evelyn E. Smith

by Mack Reynolds

by Laurence Sterne

by Cornelis Johannes Kieviet

by B. M. Bower

by Albert Engström

by Henry Ernest Dudeney

by Louisa May Alcott

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by John Brown

by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow

by active 1816-1830 John Badcock, Pierce Egan

by John Milne

by Stephen Leacock

by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

by Sir Max Beerbohm

by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

by Charles Hindley, Pierce Egan, W. T. (William Thomas) Moncrieff

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Rudyard Kipling

by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

by Eden Phillpotts

by William Makepeace Thackeray, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Henry Mayhew, Horace Mayhew, Albert Smith

by J. N. (John Newton) Stearns

by Murray Leinster

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Herbert George Jenkins

by William Shakespeare

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir

by Ambrose Bierce

by George Haven Putnam

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by Channing Pollock

by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Gustave Flaubert

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Richard Harding Davis

by Maria Thompson Daviess

by Herbert George Jenkins

by George A. Birmingham

by Jules Verne

by Charles de Coster

by Montague Glass

by Colette

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Various Authors

by Henry Abbott

by Robert Dodsley

by Guy de Maupassant

by Francis John Bellew

by William Shakespeare

by Old Sleuth

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by Various Authors

by E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means

by George Manville Fenn

by Mary Russell Mitford

by Leroy Scott

by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell

by Mack Reynolds

by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner

by George R. (George Robert) Sims

by Charles Lever

by Richmal Crompton

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley

by Various Authors

by Alfred Assollant