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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 Various Authors

by Bret Harte

by Henry C. Tinsley

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Oliver Onions

by Edward Everett Hale

by B. M. Bower

by Emile Marco de Saint-Hilaire

by Various Authors

by Edmund Lester Pearson

by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams

by Various Authors

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Ian Hay

by Various Authors

by Anne Warner

by Clifford D. Simak

by Anonymous

by Oliver Herford

by John Maddison Morton

by Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Frances) Guptill

by Théophile Gautier

by of Samosata Lucian

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by Pierre Gallet

by Burt L. Standish

by Nelson S. Bond

by George Meredith

by Oliver Herford

by Anthony Trollope

by Frank M. Robinson

by Ross Rocklynne

by Charles Battell Loomis

by Susan Fenimore Cooper

by Charlotte O'Conor Eccles

by Clyde Brown

by Evelyn E. Smith

by Agnes Castle, Egerton Castle

by Maiju Lassila

by John De Courcy, Dorothy De Courcy

by Josephine Siebe

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Bob Olsen

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, George Jean Nathan

by Robert J. (Robert James) Shores

by Gustave Droz

by George M. (George Melville) Baker

by Jaakko Ikola

by Winston Churchill

by Robert Kiljander

by Giuseppe Giacosa

by Hermannus Angelkot

by Béroalde de Verville

by Arnold Bennett

by Jalmari Finne

by Daisy Ashford

by Wardon Allan Curtis

by Hilaire Belloc

by Various Authors

by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent

by Finley Peter Dunne

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Carolyn Wells

by Ward Moore

by Carolyn Wells

by Bill Nye

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

by Ambrose Bierce

by Edward Lear

by George Meredith

by W. E. (William Edward) Webb

by Mrs. W. G. Waters

by Mark Twain

by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda

by Mark Twain

by Earl of, John Wilmot Rochester

by Bill Nye

by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

by Dama Margaret Smith

by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

by Edgar Wallace

by James Fenimore Cooper

by Hector Berlioz

by Hilaire Belloc