With a title borrowing from the fashion for outlines of history, Carolyn Wells gathers comic writing from the ancient world through the Middle Ages to modern Britain and America. Brief introductions frame extracts from Aristophanes and Lucian, medieval jesters, Rabelais, Cellini, Swift, Twain and many others, chosen for laughter rather than scholarship.
A browsable anthology for anyone curious about what made people laugh across the centuries. Download the free EPUB.