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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 W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

by Charles Hannan

by Charles Battell Loomis

by Pierre Veber

by Harry Graham

by Marie Irish

by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Henry Sydnor Harrison

by Frank Gee Patchin

by Harry Pleon

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by George R. (George Robert) Sims

by Lawrence F. Willard

by Wynkyn de Worde

by Albert W. Aiken

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Henry Wallace Phillips

by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

by Daniel F. Galouye

by Keith Laumer

by José Daniel Rodrigues da Costa

by Jr. L. J. Stecher

by Winston Churchill

by J. J. (John Joy) Bell

by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

by Various Authors

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by Edna I. MacKenzie

by Joseph Farrell

by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

by Various Authors

by Albert Smith

by Upton Sinclair

by Camilo Castelo Branco

by Jacinto Benavente

by Earl H. (Earl Howell) Reed

by Cornelius Shea

by Mark Twain

by Jerome Bixby

by Here Gerrits van der Veen

by Louis Charles Fougeret de Monbron

by Ludvig Holberg

by Jonathan Swift

by James Stamers

by Alphonse Daudet

by Bernard Shaw

by Leandro Fernández de Moratín

by Ludvig Holberg

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Bernardus Gewin

by C. M. (Charles Molloy) Westmacott

by Wilhelm Busch

by Elizabeth Strong Worthington

by Laurence Sterne

by Ricarda Huch

by Kálmán Mikszáth

by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

by George Farquhar

by Jeffery Farnol

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Francis Watt

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Claude-François-Xavier Mercier de Compiègne

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
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by Sir Max Beerbohm

by John Habberton

by R. W. Campbell

by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

by Floyd Dell

by Harry Graham

by Ercole Luigi Morselli

by William Hone

by Adeline Trafton

by Charles Dickens

by Mercy Otis Warren

by Herbert Strang

by Edmund Goldsmid

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Ian Maclaren

by Robert Alexander Wason

by John Maddison Morton

by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

by John Kendrick Bangs

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Florence Huntley

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

by Joseph Harris

by Frederick Marryat