The Humour Collection gathers the funniest writing in the public domain — the comic novels, satires, and witty essays that have made readers laugh for generations. It features Mark Twain, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome K. Jerome, and the great humorists and satirists of the English language and beyond.
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- A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume IIAugustus De Morgan
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtMark Twain
- A Journey to the World Under-GroundLudvig Holberg
- A Master of CraftW. W. Jacobs
- A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
- A Pickle for the Knowing OnesTimothy Dexter
- A Pirate of PartsRichard Neville
- A Young ManRobert W. Chambers
- AcadiaFrederic S. Cozzens
- Alarms and DiscursionsG. K. Chesterton
- All Things ConsideredG. K. Chesterton
- And That’s How It Was, OfficerRalph Sholto
- Anderson Crow, DetectiveGeorge Barr McCutcheon
- As a Chinaman Saw UsAnonymous
- Betty Wales, SeniorEdith K. Dunton
- Bird of ParadiseAda Leverson
- Caricature and Other Comic ArtJames Parton
- Carry On, JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
- Chapters from My AutobiographyMark Twain
- Christian ScienceMark Twain
- Christmas Every Day and Other StoriesWilliam Dean Howells
- Colonel Carter’s ChristmasFrancis Hopkinson Smith
- Comic History of the United StatesBill Nye
- Cynthia's ChauffeurLouis Tracy
- Daisy Ashford: Her BookDaisy Ashford
- De Zonderlinge Lotgevallen van GilAlain René Le Sage
- Der StruwwelpeterHeinrich Hoffmann
- Die seltsamen Geschichten des Doktor UlebuhleBruno Hans Bürgel
- Die Sternbuben in der GroßstadtJosephine Siebe
- ElizaBarry Pain
- Elkan Lubliner, AmericanMontague Glass
- Eve’s DiaryMark Twain
- Fibble, D.D.Irvin S. Cobb
- Further Chronicles of AvonleaL. M. Montgomery
- Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais
- Gulliver’s TravelsJonathan Swift
- Handy AndySamuel Lover
- Happy DaysA. A. Milne
- Happy-Thought HallF. C. Burnand
- Histoire amoureuse des GaulesRoger de Bussy-Rabutin
- How to Cook HusbandsElizabeth Strong Worthington
- How to Tell a Story, and Other EssaysMark Twain
- Humorous Ghost StoriesDorothy Scarborough
- Jokes For All OccasionsAnonymous
- Just PattyJean Webster
- Kate Coventry: An AutobiographyG. J. Whyte-Melville
- Knickerbocker’s History of New YorkWashington Irving
- Leave It to PsmithP. G. Wodehouse
- Love and Freindship [sic]Jane Austen
- Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
- LysistrataAristophanes
- ManaliveG. K. Chesterton
- Mark Twain’s SpeechesMark Twain
- MicrocosmographyJohn Earle
- Miss MappE. F. Benson
- Mister Galgenstrick: und andere HumoreskenKarl Ettlinger
- Mr. Dooley in Peace and in WarFinley Peter Dunne
- My Friend the ChauffeurC. N. Williamson
- Occasion … for DisasterRandall Garrett
- Odd NumbersSewell Ford
- Officer 666Barton Wood Currie
- Old EbenezerOpie Percival Read
- One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories
- PalvelusväkeäRoderich Benedix
- Penguin Persons & PeppermintsWalter Prichard Eaton
- PenrodBooth Tarkington
- Piccadilly JimP. G. Wodehouse
- PipefulsChristopher Morley
- Priscilla's SpiesGeorge A. Birmingham
- Prudence Says SoEthel Hueston
- Real Life in LondonPierce Egan
- Reisontmoetingen van Joachim Polsbroekerwoud en zijne VriendenBernardus Gewin
- Right Ho, JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
- Roughing ItMark Twain
- Roy Blakeley's Bee-line HikePercy Keese Fitzhugh
- Roy Blakeley's Camp on WheelsPercy Keese Fitzhugh
- Sea UrchinsW. W. Jacobs
- Shorty McCabeSewell Ford
- Shorty McCabe on the JobSewell Ford
- Sketches by SeymourRobert Seymour
- Sketches New and OldMark Twain
- Skippy BedelleOwen Johnson
- Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny PicturesHeinrich Hoffmann
- SupermindRandall Garrett
- Susan Clegg and a ManAnne Warner
- The amazing adventures of Letitia CarberryMary Roberts Rinehart
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-TableOliver Wendell Holmes
- The Battle of the BooksJonathan Swift
- The Bibliotaph, and Other PeopleLeon H. Vincent
- The Big Bow MysteryIsrael Zangwill
- The Book of BalladsSir Theodore Martin
- The Book of NonsenseEdward Lear
- The Cheerful SmugglersEllis Parker Butler
- The Chronicles of ClovisSaki
- The Comic English GrammarPercival Leigh
- The Daughter of Anderson CrowGeorge Barr McCutcheon
- The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
- The Diary of a NobodyGeorge & Weedon Grossmith
- The Dragon of Wantley: His TaleOwen Wister
- The Dude WranglerCaroline Lockhart
- The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerTobias Smollett
- The Gay Adventure: A RomanceRichard Bird
- The Girl on the BoatP. G. Wodehouse
- The Green MouseRobert W. Chambers
- The Humbugs of the WorldP. T. Barnum
- The Humorous Poetry of the English LanguageJames Parton (editor)
- The Idle Thoughts of an Idle FellowJerome K. Jerome
- The Ingoldsby LegendsThomas Ingoldsby
- The Innocents AbroadMark Twain
- The Joyous Adventures of Aristide PujolWilliam John Locke
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence Sterne
- The Lover’s AssistantHenry Fielding
- The magnificent possessionIsaac Asimov
- The Man Upstairs and Other StoriesP. G. Wodehouse
- The Passionate ElopementCompton MacKenzie
- The Perfect GentlemanRalph Bergengren
- The Peterkin PapersLucretia P. Hale
- The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens
- The Seven Dials MysteryAgatha Christie
- The Shellback’s ProgressBaron Walter Runciman Runciman
- The sociable ghostOlive Harper
- The Strange Adventures of Mr. MiddletonWardon Allan Curtis
- The Surprising Adventures of Baron MunchausenRudolf Erich Raspe
- The Talking Horse, and Other TalesF. Anstey
- The Toys of PeaceSaki
- The Twelfth HourAda Leverson
- The Wit of WomenKate Sanborn
- The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's PlanDaisy Ashford
- Three Men in a BoatJerome K. Jerome
- Three Men on the BummelJerome K. Jerome
- Tom Sawyer AbroadMark Twain
- Vice Versa; or, A Lesson to FathersF. Anstey
- Wee Tim’rous BeastiesDouglas English
- When Patty Went to CollegeJean Webster
- Winnie-the-PoohA. A. Milne
- Wit and Wisdom of Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra