Humor
- Witty Social Satire
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Witty Essays and Observations
- Classic Radio Comedies
- Humorous Dramas and Comedies
Dragon Ash
The Shazam Brothers are performers, jugglers, illusionists and con artists. They are also gnomes, part of the tribe that lives on the Littl…
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
Collected Shorts
Nineteen short stories cover the gamut from humor to horror. Meet ghosts, ghouls and goofballs in this expansive collection of tales ranging…
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…
Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are
Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are is a delightful collection of essays that captures the humor and charm of early twentieth-century life thro…
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets
A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat&q…
The Knights of Arthur
Pohl takes us into the future in this quirky and funny story, where the population of the United States is less than 10,000 people ... tota…
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds…
I've Come to Stay
An iconoclast in many fields herself, Mary Heaton Vorse was fascinated with Bohemia, the colorful unboundaried land of poets and artists and…
Kashtanka
"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its…
An Amiable Charlatan
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…
Gentle Julia
Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkingt…
The Lark
"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts ent…
The Girls of Gardenville
Step into the charming world of Gardenville, where a lively group of girls navigates the joys and challenges of adolescence. In "The Gi…
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's sharp and witty short story, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, we meet Bernice, a young woman whose beauty is overshadowed by …
Marriage
"Love!--A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness." - Alexander and…
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped th…
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome, offering a witty and insightful look at the quirks…
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck
"A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting…