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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- The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerTobias Smollett
- A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
- Love and Freindship [sic]Jane Austen
- The Gay Adventure: A RomanceRichard Bird
- Cynthia's ChauffeurLouis Tracy
- The Passionate ElopementCompton MacKenzie
- A Pickle for the Knowing OnesTimothy Dexter
- The Green MouseRobert W. Chambers
- Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the WorldJonathan Swift
- The Seven Dials mysteryAgatha Christie
- The Daughter of Anderson CrowGeorge Barr McCutcheon
- Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
- Occasion … for DisasterRandall Garrett
- The Man Upstairs and Other StoriesP. G. Wodehouse
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtMark Twain
- Roughing ItMark Twain
- The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentlemanLaurence Sterne
- Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais
- One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories / Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity
- The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens
- LysistrataAristophanes
- The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of LoveHenry Fielding
- SupermindRandall Garrett
- Histoire amoureuse des Gaules; suivie des Romans historico-satiriques du XVIIe siècle, Tome IRoger de Bussy-Rabutin
- "And That's How It Was, Officer"Ralph Sholto
- The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's PlanDaisy Ashford
- Winnie-the-PoohA. A. Milne
- The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English TonguePercival Leigh
- The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 / His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest EnemyWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
- The Girl on the BoatP. G. Wodehouse
- My Friend the ChauffeurC. N. Williamson
- Priscilla's SpiesGeorge A. Birmingham
- The magnificent possessionIsaac Asimov
- A journey to the world under-groundLudvig Holberg
- Officer 666Barton Wood Currie
- The sociable ghostOlive Harper
- The Book of Ballads / Eleventh Edition, 1870Sir Theodore Martin
- Die seltsamen Geschichten des Doktor UlebuhleBruno Hans Bürgel
- The amazing adventures of Letitia CarberryMary Roberts Rinehart
- Humorous Ghost StoriesDorothy Scarborough
- Acadia / or, A Month with the Blue NosesFrederic S. Cozzens
- Comic History of the United StatesBill Nye
- Miss MappE. F. Benson
- A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume IIAugustus De Morgan
- Die Sternbuben in der Großstadt: Eine heitere GeschichteJosephine Siebe
- Jokes For All Occasions / Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public SpeakersAnonymous
- The Twelfth HourAda Leverson
- "Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and CharacterDouglas English
- The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
- Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)Jerome K. Jerome
- PalvelusväkeäRoderich Benedix
- Sketches New and OldMark Twain
- The Talking Horse, and Other TalesF. Anstey
- The Joyous Adventures of Aristide PujolWilliam John Locke
- Reisontmoetingen van Joachim Polsbroekerwoud en zijne VriendenBernardus Gewin
- Der Struwwelpeter / oder lustige Geschichten und drollige BilderHeinrich Hoffmann
- Happy DaysA. A. Milne
- The Humbugs of the World / An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All AgesP. T. Barnum
- Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life. Volume 1Samuel Lover
- Old EbenezerOpie Percival Read
- Betty Wales, SeniorEdith K. Dunton
- Wit and Wisdom of Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Anderson Crow, DetectiveGeorge Barr McCutcheon
- The Dude WranglerCaroline Lockhart
- Susan Clegg and a Man in the HouseAnne Warner
- De Zonderlinge Lotgevallen van Gil Blas van Santillano, deel 1 van 2 / De Spaansche AvonturierAlain René Le Sage
- Bird of ParadiseAda Leverson
- Prudence Says SoEthel Hueston
- The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth CenturyBaron Walter Runciman Runciman
- PipefulsChristopher Morley
- Vice Versa; or, A Lesson to FathersF. Anstey
- Sea urchinsW. W. Jacobs
- Just PattyJean Webster
- Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905Various
- Skippy Bedelle / His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the WorldOwen Johnson
- Aunt Jo's scrap bag, Volume 2Louisa May Alcott
- Odd Numbers / Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabeSewell Ford
- The Dragon of Wantley: His TaleOwen Wister
- Shorty McCabe on the JobSewell Ford
- The Innocents AbroadMark Twain
- A Young Man in a Hurry, and Other Short StoriesRobert W. Chambers
- Mister Galgenstrick: und andere HumoreskenKarl Ettlinger
- Roy Blakeley's Camp on WheelsPercy Keese Fitzhugh
- A master of craftW. W. Jacobs
- When Patty Went to CollegeJean Webster
- The Strange Adventures of Mr. MiddletonWardon Allan Curtis
- The Big Bow MysteryIsrael Zangwill
- Daisy Ashford: Her BookDaisy Ashford
- The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2Harry Furniss
- Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned GentlemanFrancis Hopkinson Smith
- The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 / An Illustrated MonthlyVarious
- The Bibliotaph, and Other PeopleLeon H. Vincent
- Elkan Lubliner, AmericanMontague Glass
- Penguin Persons & PeppermintsWalter Prichard Eaton
- Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny PicturesHeinrich Hoffmann
- The Cheerful SmugglersEllis Parker Butler
- A Pirate of PartsRichard Neville
- Roy Blakeley's Bee-line HikePercy Keese Fitzhugh