Humor

The Book of Snobs

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William Makepeace Thackeray


The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

You Never Miss the Dopamine (until the brain runs dry)

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Bill Schmalfeldt


He's quickly becoming the Lewis Black of Parkinson's Disease. In a series of hilarious essays, Bill Schmalfeldt (author of "No Doorwa…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 author…

The Hunting of the Snark (version 2)

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Lewis Carroll


The Hunting of the Snark is a long nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll describing the adventures of ten weirdly assorted characters as they pursu…

The Alchemists Of Vra

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Thomas Corfield


Consider a world inhabited with only cats and dogs: a society recognizable as our own, but with its eccentricities being the norm, rather th…

Five O'Clock Tea

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William Dean Howells


A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the…

Seeing Things at Night

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Heywood Broun


This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03

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H. G. Wells


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors…

Physiologie du jour de l'an

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Louis Couailhac


Premier de l'an, jour si triste pour les uns, si beau pour les autres, je vais essayer d'esquisser ta physionomie ; et je te traiterai aussi…

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

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Edward Eggleston


"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv of…

The Witches of New York

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Q. K. Philander Doesticks


A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Phi…

The Purging Of Ruen

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Thomas Corfield


When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, Oscar Teabag-Dooven discovers it’s on the br…

Nonsense Novels

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Stephen Leacock


Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

Merton of the Movies

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Harry Leon Wilson


Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to H…

Writing Wrongly

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Thomas Corfield


When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

Brazilian Tales

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Varioustranslated Byisaac Goldberg


"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literatu…

Literary Lapses

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Stephen Leacock


Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02

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Variousandmarshall Pinckney Wilder and H. G. Wells


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 author…

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