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By: Clarence Day (1874-1935) | |
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This Simian World |
By: Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale (1820-1900) | |
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The Peterkin Papers |
By: Henry Walcott Boynton (1869-1947) | |
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The Golfer's Rubaiyat | |
By: Wallace Irwin (1876-1959) | |
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. | |
The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum |
By: Heywood Broun (1888-1939) | |
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Seeing Things at Night
This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. | |
Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms
This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, such as how to court women successfully, what it feels like to be a god, and why sometimes it would be a good idea to exchange one's own newborn baby for a better one at the hospital. |
By: David Ross Locke (1833-1888) | |
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"Swingin Round the Cirkle." His Ideas Of Men, Politics, And Things, As Set Forth In His Letters To The Public Press, During The Year 1866. |
By: Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885) | |
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The Blunders of a Bashful Man | |
The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 |
By: James Bell Salmond (1891-1958) | |
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My Man Sandy |
By: Knight Russ Ockside (1830-1898) | |
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History and Records of the Elephant Club
Mortimer Q. Thomson (September 2, 1832 – June 25, 1875) was an American journalist and humorist who wrote under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks. He was born in Riga, New York and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Michigan University in Ann Arbor, but was expelled along with several others either for his involvement in secret societies[1] or for "too much enterprise in securing subjects for the dissecting room."[2] After a brief period working in theater, he became a journalist and lecturer... |
By: H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer (1890-1929) | |
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Alex the Great | |
Kid Scanlan |
By: Jesse Lynch Williams (1871-1929) | |
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Why Marry?
Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will she be convinced that marriage is the ultimate sacredness of a relationship or will she hold to her perception that marriage is the basis of separating two lovers."Why Marry?" won the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama. |
By: Richard D. Blackmore (1654?-1729) | |
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Essay upon Wit |
By: Steele Rudd (1868-1935) | |
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On Our Selection
The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wilderness in spite of fire, famine, snakebite, and a loony hired hand. |
By: Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier | |
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Marriage, Volume 1
“Love!–A word by superstition thought a God; by use turned to an humour; by self-will made a flattering madness.” – Alexander and Campaspe. Lady Juliana, the indulged and coddled seventeen (”And a half, papa”) year old daughter of the Earl of Cortland, is betrothed by her father to a wealthy old Duke who can give her every luxury. She instead runs away and marries her very handsome but penniless lover. Very soon, they are forced to travel to Scotland to live with his quirky family in a rundown “castle” in the barren wilderness. Can this marriage survive?(Summary by P.Cunningham) |
By: Will M. (Will Martin) Cressy (1863-1930) | |
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Continuous Vaudeville |
By: John Wight (1866-1944) | |
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Mornings at Bow Street
This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces of this book are actual reports throughout the 1870s newspaper written by the reporter, John Wight and Illustrated by George Cruikshank |
By: Henry Carey (1687?-1743) | |
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A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) |
By: Christopher Morley (1890-1957) | |
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In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legislating most fruits and vegetables as unsafe or intoxicating large groups with breathable alcohol. |
By: Timothy Templeton | |
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The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth |
By: Q. K. Philander Doesticks (1832-1875) | |
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The Witches of New York
A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Philander Doesticks (a.k.a.Mortimer Thomson). |
By: James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) | |
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Why They Married |
By: Francis Marion Wing (1873-1956) | |
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"The Fotygraft Album" Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven |
By: Richard Doyle (1824-1883) | |
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The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson Being the History of What They Saw, and Did, in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy. |
By: Robert Fitzgerald | |
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The Statesmen Snowbound |
By: Wardon Allan Curtis (1867-1940) | |
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The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton |
By: Herbert George Jenkins (1876-1923) | |
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Mrs. Bindle
Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come into being through the medium of literature since Dickens wrote Pickwick Papers". The stories are based on the comedic drama of life at work, at home and all the adventures that take place along the way. It becomes clear as the stories progress that Bindle would not be who he is without Mrs. Bindle, and this book seeks to tell the stories of the Bindles from the distaff point of view. |
By: J. L. Duff | |
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The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam With Apologies to Omar |
By: A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley (1856-1925) | |
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The Casual Ward academic and other oddments |