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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 Charles Lever

by David Ross Locke

by Howard Browne

by Edwin Carty Ranck

by Various Authors

by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

by Richard Harding Davis

by Helen Rowland

by Albert Bigelow Paine

by Richard Magruder

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

by Charles Dana Gibson

by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

by Mark Twain

by Dornford Yates

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by George Manville Fenn

by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks

by Edward Bellamy

by Alfred Assollant

by John Kendrick Bangs

by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne, William Roscoe

by Mary Russell Mitford

by Robert Grant

by Various Authors

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome, Eden Phillpotts

by Maurice Hewlett

by Howard Roger Garis

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Sarah L. Barrow

by William Banks

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Richard Head, Francis Kirkman

by Robert E. Gilbert

by Various Authors

by Wallace Irwin

by William Henry Giles Kingston

by Robert Bloomfield

by Robert Sheckley

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Ernest Doin

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Nathan Dane Urner

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by George Cruikshank

by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Archibald Marshall

by Alberto Pimentel

by Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone) Burpee

by Emile Bergerat

by Douglas William Jerrold

by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

by Lily F. Wesselhoeft

by Jacinto Benavente

by Cornelis Johannes Kieviet

by Bernard Capes

by Jesse Lynch Williams

by Jules Sandeau

by Barry Pain

by Howard Roger Garis

by Giuseppe Giacosa

by Rudolf Besier

by Captain Alan Douglas

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Various Authors

by Cleveland Moffett, Oliver Herford

by Marietta Holley

by Tristan Bernard

by Morley Roberts

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Fritz Leiber

by Alice Dale Hardy

by David Mason

by Alain René Le Sage

by Douglas William Jerrold

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Clemens Brentano

by J. Stirling (Joseph Stirling) Coyne

by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

by Giambattista della Porta

by John Oxenford

by Rudyard Kipling

by Burt L. Standish

by Charles Nodier

by William Tenn

by Washington Irving

by David Mason

by Frank Banta

by Various Authors

by Pierre Mille

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Burt L. Standish

by Frances Trego Montgomery

by Laura Lee Hope

by Mark Twain