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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 Guy Wetmore Carryl

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Mark Twain

by Voltaire

by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

by Booth Tarkington

by Various Authors

by Wilhelm Busch

by William Shakespeare

by Plum Rocky Mountain

by Thomas Nelson Page

by Various Authors

by Jr. L. J. Stecher

by Laurence M. Janifer

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Howard Roger Garis

by Francesco Belo

by Edmond Rostand

by active 1759-1775 Thomas Bridges

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Ernest Bramah

by Ring Lardner

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Richard Harding Davis

by Meredith Nicholson

by Frederick Marryat

by Various Authors

by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow

by Various Authors

by Amy Prentice

by Oliver Herford

by Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina

by Duchess

by Lauri Haarla

by Gustav Schwab

by Jeffery Farnol

by Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

by Various Authors

by Frederick Marryat

by Wilkie Collins

by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

by Frederick Marryat

by Anthony Hope

by Louis Pergaud

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by Alphonse Daudet

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Mark Twain

by Various Authors

by Robert Guliver

by Alain René Le Sage

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by Saki

by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Frederick Marryat

by Stephen Leacock

by Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer

by Andrew Lang

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

by Eugene Field

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

by Molière

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Mark Twain

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Burt L. Standish

by Hilaire Belloc

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Tiitus

by Mark Twain

by Jean Webster

by Edith K. (Edith Kellogg) Dunton

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Edward Lear

by George Cruikshank

by Ernest Bramah

by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, George Jean Nathan, Willard Huntington Wright

by Various Authors

by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Various Authors

by Bernard Shaw

by Molière

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Norman Lindsay

by Mary Grant Bruce

by Edmond Lepelletier, Émile Moreau, Victorien Sardou

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by Oliver Goldsmith