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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- Cynthia's ChauffeurLouis Tracy
- The Gay Adventure: A RomanceRichard Bird
- The Passionate ElopementCompton MacKenzie
- Occasion … for DisasterRandall Garrett
- Gulliver’s TravelsJonathan Swift
- The Daughter of Anderson CrowGeorge Barr McCutcheon
- The Seven Dials MysteryAgatha Christie
- A Pickle for the Knowing OnesTimothy Dexter
- Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
- Love and Freindship [sic]Jane Austen
- The Green MouseRobert W. Chambers
- A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
- The Man Upstairs and Other StoriesP. G. Wodehouse
- The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerTobias Smollett
- Histoire amoureuse des GaulesRoger de Bussy-Rabutin
- And That’s How It Was, OfficerRalph Sholto
- SupermindRandall Garrett
- The Lover’s AssistantHenry Fielding
- Officer 666Barton Wood Currie
- The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's PlanDaisy Ashford
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtMark Twain
- The Girl on the BoatP. G. Wodehouse
- My Friend the ChauffeurC. N. Williamson
- Priscilla's SpiesGeorge A. Birmingham
- Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais
- The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence Sterne
- LysistrataAristophanes
- The amazing adventures of Letitia CarberryMary Roberts Rinehart
- The magnificent possessionIsaac Asimov
- A Journey to the World Under-GroundLudvig Holberg
- The sociable ghostOlive Harper
- Winnie-the-PoohA. A. Milne
- PalvelusväkeäRoderich Benedix
- One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories
- Comic History of the United StatesBill Nye
- Three Men in a BoatJerome K. Jerome
- Miss MappE. F. Benson
- Roughing ItMark Twain
- AcadiaFrederic S. Cozzens
- Der StruwwelpeterHeinrich Hoffmann
- Anderson Crow, DetectiveGeorge Barr McCutcheon
- The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
- Humorous Ghost StoriesDorothy Scarborough
- The Comic English GrammarPercival Leigh
- A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume IIAugustus De Morgan
- Odd NumbersSewell Ford
- Happy DaysA. A. Milne
- The Book of BalladsSir Theodore Martin
- Wee Tim’rous BeastiesDouglas English
- The Humbugs of the WorldP. T. Barnum
- Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny PicturesHeinrich Hoffmann
- De Zonderlinge Lotgevallen van GilAlain René Le Sage
- Bird of ParadiseAda Leverson
- A Young ManRobert W. Chambers
- The Innocents AbroadMark Twain
- The Twelfth HourAda Leverson
- Old EbenezerOpie Percival Read
- Wit and Wisdom of Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Reisontmoetingen van Joachim Polsbroekerwoud en zijne VriendenBernardus Gewin
- The Joyous Adventures of Aristide PujolWilliam John Locke
- The Strange Adventures of Mr. MiddletonWardon Allan Curtis
- The Talking Horse, and Other TalesF. Anstey
- The Big Bow MysteryIsrael Zangwill
- PipefulsChristopher Morley
- Jokes For All OccasionsAnonymous
- Shorty McCabe on the JobSewell Ford
- Prudence Says SoEthel Hueston
- Susan Clegg and a ManAnne Warner
- Kate Coventry: An AutobiographyG. J. Whyte-Melville
- Skippy BedelleOwen Johnson
- The Dude WranglerCaroline Lockhart
- Handy AndySamuel Lover
- MicrocosmographyJohn Earle
- Sketches New and OldMark Twain
- The Shellback’s ProgressBaron Walter Runciman Runciman
- Mister Galgenstrick: und andere HumoreskenKarl Ettlinger
- Vice Versa; or, A Lesson to FathersF. Anstey
- Elkan Lubliner, AmericanMontague Glass
- As a Chinaman Saw UsAnonymous
- Penguin Persons & PeppermintsWalter Prichard Eaton
- The Bibliotaph, and Other PeopleLeon H. Vincent
- Right Ho, JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
- The Wit of WomenKate Sanborn
- The Cheerful SmugglersEllis Parker Butler
- ElizaBarry Pain
- Sea UrchinsW. W. Jacobs
- The Dragon of Wantley: His TaleOwen Wister
- Happy-Thought HallF. C. Burnand
- Mr. Dooley in Peace and in WarFinley Peter Dunne
- Colonel Carter’s ChristmasFrancis Hopkinson Smith
- Mark Twain’s SpeechesMark Twain
- Shorty McCabeSewell Ford
- Fibble, D.D.Irvin S. Cobb
- Eve’s DiaryMark Twain
- All Things ConsideredG. K. Chesterton
- Daisy Ashford: Her BookDaisy Ashford
- The Perfect GentlemanRalph Bergengren
- A Pirate of PartsRichard Neville
- Bibliomania Thomas Frognall Dibdin
- When Patty Went to CollegeJean Webster
- Roy Blakeley's Camp on WheelsPercy Keese Fitzhugh
- How to Cook HusbandsElizabeth Strong Worthington
- Real Life in LondonPierce Egan
- Roy Blakeley's Bee-line HikePercy Keese Fitzhugh
- Christmas Every Day and Other StoriesWilliam Dean Howells
- Chapters from My AutobiographyMark Twain
- ManaliveG. K. Chesterton
- Betty Wales, SeniorEdith K. Dunton
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-TableOliver Wendell Holmes
- Knickerbocker’s History of New YorkWashington Irving
- Die Sternbuben in der GroßstadtJosephine Siebe
- The Peterkin PapersLucretia P. Hale
- Die seltsamen Geschichten des Doktor UlebuhleBruno Hans Bürgel
- The Chronicles of ClovisSaki
- Leave It to PsmithP. G. Wodehouse
- The Toys of PeaceSaki
- The Diary of a NobodyGeorge & Weedon Grossmith
- Carry On, JeevesP. G. Wodehouse
- The Battle of the BooksJonathan Swift
- The Idle Thoughts of an Idle FellowJerome K. Jerome
- Tom Sawyer AbroadMark Twain
- Caricature and Other Comic ArtJames Parton
- The Book of NonsenseEdward Lear
- Phantasmagoria and Other Poems Lewis Carroll
- Humour, Wit, and Satire of the Seventeenth Century John Ashton
- The Ingoldsby LegendsThomas Ingoldsby
- PenrodBooth Tarkington
- Further Chronicles of AvonleaL. M. Montgomery
- Shakespeare Jest-Books: A Hundred Mery Talys W. Carew Hazlitt
- Three Men on the BummelJerome K. Jerome
- Alarms and DiscursionsG. K. Chesterton
- The Humorous Poetry of the English LanguageJames Parton (editor)
- How to Tell a Story, and Other EssaysMark Twain
- A Master of CraftW. W. Jacobs
- The Surprising Adventures of Baron MunchausenRudolf Erich Raspe
- Nasby in Exile David Ross Locke
- Abe Lincoln’s Anecdotes and Stories R. D. Wordsworth
- Christian ScienceMark Twain
- Not That It Matters A. A. Milne
- Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion Mark Twain
- A Century of Parody and Imitation Walter Jerrold and R. M. Leonard
- Mr. Punch’s History of the Great War Charles L. Graves
- Idle Ideas in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome
- Mince Pie Christopher Morley
- Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce
- Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Comic History of Rome Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
- The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray
- George Cruikshank’s Omnibus George Cruikshank
- Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Edward Bannerman Ramsay
- Conundrums, Riddles and Puzzles Dean Rivers
- The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome K. Jerome
- The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood Thomas Hood
- Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs W. S. Gilbert
- Androcles and the Lion Bernard Shaw
- Peck’s Compendium of Fun George W. Peck
- Three Elephant Power and Other Stories Banjo Paterson
- Sketches by SeymourRobert Seymour
- Moments with Mark Twain Mark Twain
- The True History of Tom & Jerry Charles Hindley
- Enoch Soames Max Beerbohm
- Gay Gods and Merry Mortals Robert J. Shores
- Is Shakespeare Dead? Mark Twain
- The Impostures of Scapin Molière
- My Lady Nicotine J. M. Barrie
- The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Eugene Field
- The Humour of America Angus Evan Abbott
- The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory
- Buffalo Land W. E. Webb
- A Dissertation upon Roast Pig Charles Lamb
- Curious Epitaphs William Andrews
- Joe Miller’s Jests John Mottley
- Watch Yourself Go By Al G. Field
- Peck’s Sunshine George W. Peck
- The Humors of Falconbridge Jonathan F. Kelly
- Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date Irwin L. Gordon
- The Jest Book Mark Lemon
- Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin Charles Edmonds
- Certain Personal Matters H. G. Wells
- Thistledown Robert Ford
- Fifty Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert
- The American Joe Miller Robert Kempt
- The Comic History of the United States John D. Sherwood
- People You Know George Ade
- Piccadilly JimP. G. Wodehouse
- Famous Funny Fellows Will M. Clemens
- Petty Troubles of Married Life Honoré de Balzac
- The Book of Noodles W. A. Clouston
- The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray
- Diary of a Pilgrimage Jerome K. Jerome
- The Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert
- The Paris and Irish Sketch Books William Makepeace Thackeray
- Love Conquers All Robert Benchley
- Sketches of Young Gentlemen Charles Dickens
- The Ten Pleasures of Marriage A. Marsh
- Perfect Behavior Donald Ogden Stewart
- Abroad with the Jimmies Lilian Bell
- The Humour of Ireland D. J. O’Donoghue
- Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy Stephen Leacock
- The Fiend’s Delight Ambrose Bierce
- The Horse Shoe Edward G. Flight
- Hudibras Samuel Butler
- An Outline of Humor Carolyn Wells
- Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Edward T. Mason
- Yet Again Max Beerbohm
- Adopting an Abandoned Farm Kate Sanborn
- The Cynic’s Word Book Ambrose Bierce
- The Choice Humorous Works of Theodore Hook Theodore Hook
- The Turkish Jester Anonymous
- My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner
- Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer Richard Steele
- The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman Charles Dickens
- The Handbook of Conundrums Edith B. Ordway
- Songs of a Savoyard W. S. Gilbert
- Sketches of Young Couples Charles Dickens
- The Spinster Book Myrtle Reed
- A Parody Outline of History Donald Ogden Stewart
- The Breitmann Ballads Charles Godfrey Leland
- A Laugh a Day Keeps the Doctor Away Irvin S. Cobb
- Public and Private Life of Animals P.-J. Stahl
- Dere Mable Edward Streeter
- The Sunny Side of the Street Marshall P. Wilder
- The Curious Republic of Gondour Mark Twain
- Baled Hay Bill Nye
- A Comedy of Errors in Seven Acts Spokeshave
- Dreams Jerome K. Jerome
- Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture Palmer Cox
- Nye and Riley’s Wit and Humor Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley
- Some Private Views James Payn
- Humorous Hits and How to Hold an Audience Grenville Kleiser
- Further Foolishness Stephen Leacock
- The Glugs of Gosh C. J. Dennis
- Mark Twain’s Burlesque Autobiography Mark Twain
- Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo William Makepeace Thackeray
- Fables for the Frivolous Guy Wetmore Carryl
- The Humour of Spain Susette M. Taylor
- Uncle Josh’s Punkin Centre Stories Cal Stewart
- Bill Nye and Boomerang Bill Nye
- The Sunny Side A. A. Milne
- Fables for the Times H. W. Phillips
- More Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert
- As Seen By Me Lilian Bell
- Clocks Jerome K. Jerome
- The Book of Edinburgh Anecdote Francis Watt
- A Frenchman in America Max O’Rell
- A Merry Dialogue of Shrews and Honest Wives Desiderius Erasmus
- Our Churches and Chapels Anthony Hewitson
- The Humour of Italy Alice Werner
- Burgess Unabridged Gelett Burgess
- More Fables George Ade
- If I May A. A. Milne
- The Dogs and the Fleas Frederic Scrimshaw
- Broad Grins George Colman the Younger
- Essays on Paul Bourget Mark Twain
- On a Donkey’s Hurricane Deck R. Pitcher Woodward
- Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities William T. Dobson
- Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes Harry Graham
- The Belle’s Stratagem Hannah Cowley
- Amusing Prose Chap-Books Robert Hays Cunningham
- A Humorous History of England Charles Harrison
- My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock
- A Nonsense Anthology Carolyn Wells
- The Seven Ages of Man Ralph Bergengren
- High Society Anne Harriet Fish
- Of All Things Robert Benchley
- Twenty-One Days in India George Aberigh-Mackay
- Condensed Novels: New Burlesques Bret Harte
- Mr. Pim Passes By A. A. Milne
- Ebrietatis Encomium, or The Praise of Drunkenness Albert-Henri de Sallengre
- The Gay Lord Quex Arthur Wing Pinero
- The Bab Ballads and Songs of a Savoyard W. S. Gilbert
- The Silly Syclopedia George V. Hobart
- Europe After 8:15 H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright
- The Vegetable F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Cornish Saints and Sinners J. Henry Harris
- Gala-Days Gail Hamilton
- The Pretentious Young Ladies Molière
- Shakespeare’s Insomnia Franklin H. Head
- In the Wilderness Charles Dudley Warner
- Europe Revised Irvin S. Cobb
- It Pays to Advertise Roi Cooper Megrue
- Some Irish Yesterdays E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross
- Best Short Stories Thomas L. Masson
- The Life of Sir John Falstaff Robert B. Brough
- Ever Heard This? F. W. Chambers
- Heliogabalus H. L. Mencken
- A Book of Burlesque W. Davenport Adams
- The Humour of Germany Hans Müller-Casenov
- Rejected Addresses James and Horace Smith
- Are You a Bromide? Gelett Burgess
- The Old Soldier’s Story James Whitcomb Riley
- Peter Plymley’s Letters Sydney Smith
- Bill Nye’s Cordwood Bill Nye
- One Third Off Irvin S. Cobb
- John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor Wallace Irwin
- The Ship-Dwellers Albert Bigelow Paine
- Evergreens Jerome K. Jerome
- German Wit and Humor Minna Sophie Marie Baumann Downes
- Peck’s Bad Boy with the Cowboys George W. Peck
- The Illiterate Digest Will Rogers
- The Hohenzollerns in America Stephen Leacock
- Kemps Nine Daies Wonder William Kemp
- Bizarre Lawton Mackall
- Humorous Readings and Recitations Leopold Wagner
- Humours of Irish Life Charles L. Graves
- Imperfectly Proper Peter Donovan
- This Simian World Clarence Day
- The Fotygraft Album Frank Wing
- Judgments in Vacation Edward Abbott Parry
- High Life in New York Ann S. Stephens
- Comic History of England Bill Nye
- Playful Poems Henry Morley
- The Humour of Holland W. H. Dircks
- Stage-Land Jerome K. Jerome
- Same Old Bill, Eh Mable! Edward Streeter
- Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Jenny Wren
- Poems for Pale People Edwin Carty Ranck
- A Burlesque Translation of Homer Thomas Bridges
- Ginger-Snaps Fanny Fern
- The Sleeping-Car William Dean Howells
- A Parody Anthology Carolyn Wells
- Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne
- Scotch Wit and Humor W. H. Howe
- Behind the Beyond Stephen Leacock
- Behind the Bungalow E. H. Aitken
- The Puddleford Papers Henry Hiram Riley
- The Swamp Doctor’s Adventures in the South-West Henry Clay Lewis and John S. Robb
- The Bashful Earthquake Oliver Herford
- Said the Observer Louis J. Stellman
- The Harlequinade Dion Clayton Calthrop and Harley Granville-Barker
- The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni
- The Play’s the Thing Ferenc Molnár
- Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat) W. I. Hood
- The Heiress John Burgoyne
- Josh Billings on Ice Josh Billings
- Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas Charles Dickens
- Fanny and the Servant Problem Jerome K. Jerome
- Whistler Stories Don C. Seitz
- The Countess of Escarbagnas Molière
- Gallery of Comicalities George Cruikshank
- The Collector’s Whatnot Booth Tarkington
- The Scornful Lady Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
- Pistols for Two H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan
- The Army Mule and Other War Sketches Henry A. Castle
- A Plea for Old Cap Collier Irvin S. Cobb
- The Book of Martha Mrs. Dowdall
- Maxims and Hints for an Angler Richard Penn
- Nothing to Eat Horatio Alger Jr.
- The Real Dope Ring Lardner
- Studies in Jocular Literature William Carew Hazlitt
- In Pastures New George Ade
- Once a Week A. A. Milne
- Bill Nye’s Chestnuts Old and New Bill Nye
- Nonsense for Old and Young Eugene Field
- Beaver John Kettelwell
- In the Vine Country E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross
- The Law of Hotel Life R. Vashon Rogers
- The Albany Depot William Dean Howells
- The Bibliomaniac Charles Nodier
- Cambridge Pieces Samuel Butler
- English as She Is Spoke Pedro Carolino
- In the Track of the Bookworm Irving Browne
- How Spring Came in New England Charles Dudley Warner
- Cupid’s Cyclopedia Oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay
- The Pleasures of a Single Life Anonymous
- The Book of Clever Beasts Myrtle Reed
- Caper-Sauce Fanny Fern
- Farmer Bumpkin’s Lawsuit Richard Harris
- Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax Josh Billings
- The Punster’s Pocket-Book Charles Molloy Westmacott
- Speaking of Operations Irvin S. Cobb
- Old Fogy James Huneker
- In a Canadian Canoe Barry Pain
- Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings Josh Billings
- Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures Douglas Jerrold
- The Footlights, Fore and Aft Channing Pollock
- Symptoms of Being 35 Ring Lardner
- The Book of Cats Charles H. Ross
- The Lighter Side of School Life Ian Hay
- The Elephant Club Q. K. Philander Doesticks
- The Log of the Ark Irwin Leslie Gordon
- A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches J. M. Barrie
- Gleanings in Graveyards Horatio Edward Norfolk
- The Pennyles Pilgrimage John Taylor
- Bill Nye’s Sparks Bill Nye
- The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady Carolyn Wells
- The Magistrate Arthur Wing Pinero
- Peter Bell the Third Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie Barney Stone
- Dumbells of Business Louis Custer Martin Reed
- Swingin Round the Cirkle David Ross Locke
- The Electric Man Charles Hannan
- A Line o’ Gowf or Two Bert Leston Taylor
- The New Gulliver and Other Stories Barry Pain