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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 Mark Twain

by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by Richard Wilson

by Eugène Labiche, Édouard Martin

by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

by John Hartley

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Various Authors

by Dum-Dum

by William Clark Russell

by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

by Samuel W. (Samuel Ward) Francis

by John O'Keeffe

by Friedrich Hebbel

by Stephen Marlowe

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Christian Tobias Ephraim Reinhard

by Harry Graham

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

by Aristophanes

by Beatrix Potter

by Mark Twain

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by François Rabelais

by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse, H. W. (Herbert Wetton) Westbrook

by Alfred Henry Lewis

by James Huneker

by Harry Harrison

by Anonymous

by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

by Frank R. Stockton

by William Carleton

by Burt L. Standish

by Mary Roberts Rinehart

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Bonaventure Des Périers

by Arnold Bennett

by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

by Mark Twain

by Robert Southey

by George Ade

by Jeffery Farnol

by Harold MacGrath

by Marietta Holley

by Jules Renard

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Howard Roger Garis

by Felix Schloemp

by Winston K. (Winston Kinney) Marks

by Roderich Benedix

by M. L. Campbell

by Bernard Shaw

by Jean Webster

by Denis Diderot

by William Makepeace Thackeray

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

by G. W. (George William) Foote

by Arnold Bennett

by Owen Wister

by John Bell Bouton

by Mark Twain

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by F. Anstey

by James Branch Cabell

by Fritz Leiber

by Mark Twain

by Marietta Holley

by Mark Twain

by Wallace Irwin

by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

by Ruth McEnery Stuart

by Marietta Holley

by Carolyn Wells

by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

by Ludvig Holberg

by Ellis Parker Butler

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Olga de Pitray

by Arthur Wing Pinero

by Evelyn E. Smith

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Giuseppe Giacosa

by Jonathan Swift

by William Shakespeare

by Randall Garrett, Laurence M. Janifer

by Mark Twain

by F. Anstey

by Owen Wister

by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

by Rudolf Erich Raspe

by Booth Tarkington