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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 Léon Dupré-Carra

by John Victor Peterson

by Jules Noriac

by Clarence Budington Kelland

by Burt L. Standish

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Ludvig Holberg

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Albert Ehrenstein

by Kris Neville

by Mór Jókai

by Ernst Eckstein

by Eugène Scribe

by Vihtori Niemi

by Maiju Lassila

by Ville Vuoksinen

by Christopher Morley

by Owen Johnson

by Baron Walter Runciman Runciman

by F. Anstey

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Ellis Parker Butler

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

by Graham Everitt

by Joseph Grego

by Camilo Castelo Branco

by Alfred Burnett

by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann

by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

by William Davenport Adams

by Edwin Lefevre

by Cuthbert Bede

by Maria Edgeworth

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

by Charles Dickens

by Bernard Shaw

by Peter Donovan

by Edward Jenkins

by Edmund Lester Pearson

by Jonathan Swift

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Eliza Leslie

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

by Georges Le Faure, H. de (Henry) Graffigny

by Don Marquis

by Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

by Ian Hay

by Francis Perry Elliott

by Arnold Bennett

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Irving Bacheller

by Various Authors

by Wallace Irwin

by Ambrose Bierce

by Simeon Strunsky

by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

by André Maurois

by Various Authors

by Nellie M. (Nellie Mabel) Leonard

by Molière

by Mariano Barranco, Luis Cocat, Heliodoro Criado y Baca, Miguel Ramos Carrión

by Frank R. Heine

by Irving Browne

by Edward Streeter

by Ethellyn Gardner

by Elizabeth Von Arnim

by Edmund Vance Cooke

by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

by Geo. P. (George Pickering) Burnham

by Ruth Plumly Thompson

by Mark Clifton

by Plattsburgh Barracks (N.Y.)

by Sewell Ford

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

by Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell, Lady Florence Elsa Bell Richmond

by Paul de Kock

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by Carolyn Wells

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Giuseppe Giacosa

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Charles V. De Vet

by Nelson Lloyd

by Julian Street