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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 Octave Uzanne

by Marietta Holley

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Various Authors

by Thomas Carlyle

by Christopher Morley

by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Emile Gaboriau

by Various Authors

by Otto Ernst Schmidt

by Various Authors

by Molière

by George Ade

by Bernard Shaw

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Steele Rudd

by Alphonse Allais

by John Habberton

by Mark Twain

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Jeffery Farnol

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

by Various Authors

by Theodor Lipps

by Théophile Gautier

by Carl Jacobi

by Margaret Mayo

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Francisco de Paula de Figueiredo

by Dorothy Scarborough

by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

by Various Authors

by Ada Leverson

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Ruupert Kainulainen

by Ben Jonson

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Charles Dickens

by Booth Tarkington, Harry Leon Wilson

by Aristophanes

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Fritz Barschdorff

by Aapo Selja

by Honoré de Balzac

by James De Mille

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by François Rabelais

by Jonathan Swift

by Washington Irving

by Charles Dickens

by Harry Leon Wilson

by Bernard Shaw

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Various Authors

by John Kendrick Bangs

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Molière

by Honoré de Balzac

by August von Kotzebue, Marie Hankel, T. Williams

by Roderich Benedix

by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

by comte de Roger de Rabutin Bussy

by Ambrose Bierce

by Lodovico Domenichi

by John Ashton

by Tom Taylor

by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

by Rudyard Kipling

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Alfredo Panzini

by Jean Webster

by Ralph Henry Barbour

by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

by Mary Russell Mitford

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

by Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer

by Mark Twain

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Sewell Ford