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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 Laurence Sterne

by Ludvig Holberg

by Laurence Sterne

by Hjalmar Nortamo

by Leopold Schefer

by Teodoro Baró

by William Shakespeare

by Henry Fielding, Ovid

by George Fitch

by Anonymous

by William Hone

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Christian Reuter

by Marietta Holley

by of Samosata Lucian

by Dion Clayton Calthrop

by O. Henry

by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by William Mountfort, Christopher Marlowe

by Mark Twain

by Stephen Leacock

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

by Washington Irving

by Bill Nye

by Richard Tickell, George Ellis, French Laurence, Joseph Richardson

by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

by Finley Peter Dunne

by Charles Dickens

by Dornford Yates

by Paul Dickey, Charles Goddard

by Stephen Leacock

by John Jones, Jonathan Swift

by Various Authors

by Frank Frankfort Moore

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Anatole France

by William Shakespeare

by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

by Barney Stone

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by George Aberigh-Mackay

by Richmal Crompton

by Frederic Stewart Isham

by K. McDowell (Katharine McDowell) Rice, Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Various Authors

by Kenneth McGaffey

by Luigi Arnaldo Vassallo

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Mark Twain

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by George Herbert Gibson

by Richard Harding Davis

by George V. (George Vere) Hobart

by Frederic Scrimshaw

by Will Rogers

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by George Barr McCutcheon

by H. (Henry) Cholmondeley-Pennell

by George A. (George Alexander) Kyle

by Various Authors

by George Du Maurier

by Mark Twain
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Francis Hopkinson Smith

by John O'Keeffe

by Louis Newman

by Violet Hunt

by F. Anstey

by R. W. Campbell

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Frances Trego Montgomery

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Chuck Connors

by Mrs. Molesworth

by Mark Twain

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by James A. (James Albert) Frye