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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 Reginald Wright Kauffman

by Frances Trego Montgomery

by Honoré de Balzac

by Richard Barnum

by William Frederick Kirk

by Rupert Hughes

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Sigge Strömberg

by W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle

by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

by Jean de La Fontaine

by Heinrich Hoffmann

by Norman Lindsay

by Marietta Holley

by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

by Robert Smith Surtees

by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks

by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

by George Barr McCutcheon

by Thomas Love Peacock

by Charles Godfrey Leland

by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

by William De Morgan

by William Shakespeare

by Ian Hay

by Henry Augustus Hering

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

by Sewell Ford

by Guy Wetmore Carryl

by Various Authors

by Ludvig Holberg

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Harry L. (Harry La Tourette) Foster

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

by Various Authors

by Henry Howard Harper

by Various Authors

by Saki

by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell, Frank Crowninshield, Dorothy Parker

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Rutherford G. (Rutherford George) Montgomery

by Various Authors

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Arthur Scott Bailey

by Marietta Holley

by Edward Dyson

by Guy Wetmore Carryl
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by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Frances Lester Warner, Gertrude Chandler Warner

by Kenneth Grahame

by Owen Wister

by Various Authors

by Vivant Denon

by Anthony Trollope

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Marietta Holley

by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

by J. van (Jacob) Lennep

by James V. McConnell

by Jean de La Fontaine

by John Maddison Morton

by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

by Various Authors

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Peter Nansen

by Howard Roger Garis

by Ben Jonson

by Mark Twain

by Saki

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

by William John Locke

by James V. McConnell

by John McElroy

by Molière

by Mark Twain

by Harry Harrison

by Mark Twain

by Guy de Maupassant

by active 17th century-18th century Yunyangchichidaoren

by Alain René Le Sage

by Carolyn Wells

by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

by Edward Eggleston

by George Ade

by Frances Boyd Calhoun

by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe

by Ellis Parker Butler

by Nell Speed

by Kate Trimble Sharber

by Andrew Lang

by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

by Charles Dudley Warner

by Murray F. Yaco