Humor (Fiction)

Trolley Folly

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Henry Wallace Phillips



This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with…

Still - William

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Richmal Crompton



More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales

The Idiot at home

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John Kendrick Bangs



The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are en…

Essays on Paul Bourget

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Mark Twain



Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and &quo…

The Foolish Dictionary

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Charles Wayland Towne



"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…

How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion

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George Wilbur Peck



A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a wri…

Tales of St. Austin's

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P. G. Wodehouse



Early short stories from Wodehouse focusing on life at St. Austin's, a fictional English public school. Also, Included are four humorous ess…

The One-Hoss Shay

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiec…

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

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Edwin Abbott Abbott



This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…

The Problem Club

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Barry Pain



The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…

A Valentine

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Lewis Carroll



This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)

The Bab Ballads

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W. S. Gilbert



The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 05

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Various



The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the fifth volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 32 authors…

My Buried Treasure

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Richard Harding Davis



"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for t…

The Steel Flea

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Nikolai Leskov



An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tell…

Mary Broome

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Allan Monkhouse



Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…

The Adventures of a Suburbanite

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Ellis Parker Butler



Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, t…

Mother Goose for Grownups

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Guy Wetmore Carryl



Mother Goose for Grownups is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl. (Summary by…

The Charwoman's Daughter

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James Stephens



A humorous tale about a poor Irish charwoman living in the slums of Dublin, and her innocent teenage daughter, Mary Makebelieve, whose first…

Ellis Parker Butler Short Story Collection, Vol 1

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Ellis Parker Butler



Ellis Parker Butler was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. These are eight…

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