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By: Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) | |
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Hoosier Schoolmaster
"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes. You might teach a summer school, when nothin' but children come. But I 'low it takes a right smart man to be school-master in Flat Crick in the winter. They'd pitch you out of doors, sonny, neck and heels, afore Christmas." |
By: Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870-1944) | |
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Cape Cod Stories
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work frequently appeared in popular magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and The Delineator.... Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied "spinning yarns" that made readers feel good about themselves and their neighbors. Two of his stories have been adapted to film... | |
The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights |
By: Marietta Holley (1836-1926) | |
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Samantha Among the Brethren |
By: William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) | |
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The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic finds out, however, that he was born on 29 February, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year... |
By: Bruce Bairnsfather (1888?-1959) | |
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Fragments From France |
By: Thomas A. Janvier (1849-1913) | |
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Uncle Of An Angel
In what I have read so far this book appears to be a humorous character study on two levels. That between the uncle and niece and that of polite society in the 19th century. Anything can happen. I for one want to find out what will happen!! |
By: George A. Birmingham (1865-1950) | |
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The Simpkins Plot |
By: Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) | |
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The Magic Pudding
Bunyip Bluegum the koala sets out on his travels taking only a walking stick. At about lunchtime, feeling more than slightly peckish, he meets Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin who are eating a pudding. The pudding is a magic one which, no matter how much you eat it, always reforms into a whole pudding again. He is called Albert, has thin arms and legs and is a bad-tempered, ill-mannered so-and-so into the bargain. His only pleasure is being eaten. The book is divided into four "slices" instead of chapters. (Introduction by Wikipedia) | |
The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff |
By: Various | |
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Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1
Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin and Washington Irving. |
By: Thomas L. Masson (1866-1934) | |
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Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor |
By: Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935) | |
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Humorous Ghost Stories
Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde -- The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess -- "Dey ain't no ghosts" / by Ellis Parker Butler -- The transferred ghost / by Frank R. Stockton -- The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier -- The rival ghosts / Brander Matthews -- The water ghost of Harrowby Hall / by John Kendrick Bangs -- Back from that bourne / Anonymous -- The ghost-ship / by Richard Middleton -- The transplanted ghost / by Wallace Irwin --... |
By: Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) | |
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Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen | |
Mr. Dooley's Philosophy | |
Mr. Dooley Says |
By: Anne Warner (1869-1913) | |
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The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary | |
Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop | |
Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs | |
Susan Clegg and a Man in the House |
By: Montague Glass (1877-1934) | |
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The Competitive Nephew |
By: Martin Ross (1862-1915) | |
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Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. |
By: Roger Kuykendall | |
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We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly |
By: John Galt (1779-1839) | |
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The Provost |
By: Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1834-1925) | |
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Bardell v. Pickwick |
By: Artemus Ward (1834-1867) | |
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The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters |
By: William H. Mallock (1849-1923) | |
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Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book |
By: Percival Leigh (1813-1889) | |
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The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue |
By: T. W. H. Crosland (1865-1924) | |
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The Old Man's Bag |
By: Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) | |
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The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England |
By: Barry Pain (1824-1928) | |
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If Winter Don't
Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'.We follow the professional and marital decline of long suffering (and loving it), Luke Sharper, as his marriage to Mabel flounders while his love for Jona flourishes. It could only end in tears.....Or could it? ( |
By: Charles Harrison (-1943) | |
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A Humorous History of England |
By: C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning (1878-1938) | |
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Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations |
By: Donald Ogden Stewart | |
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Perfect Behavior
A humorous guide to manners and etiquette for ladies and gentlemen in a social "crises," published in 1922. (Introduction by Samanem) |
By: Don Marquis (1878-1937) | |
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Danny's Own Story
Danny is the proverbial basket-on-the-doorstep baby, found by Hank and Elmira Walters, a childless couple who welcome him into their home because they need a new topic over which to bicker. Bicker they do, and fight just as often, from the day they attempt to settle on a name, to the day eighteen years later, when Danny and Hank come to blows and Danny leaves home in company with Dr. Kirby, bottler and supplier of the miracle elixir, Siwash Indian Sagraw. For years Danny wanders aimlessly--from Illinois to Indiana to Ohio, back to Illinois, then into Tennessee and points south--sometimes in company with Dr... |
By: P. Hampson | |
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The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of GirthamCollege in Polemical Science |
By: W. S. Gilbert (d 1911) | |
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More Bab Ballads
This is a subset of the first twelve poems from the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is “HIS FOE WAS FOLLY AND HIS WEAPON WIT”, an epitaph amply exemplified in these verses. |
By: W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert (1836-1911) | |
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Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs |
By: Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field (1852-) | |
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Watch Yourself Go By |
By: Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1864-1950) | |
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Irish Books and Irish People |
By: Will Rogers (1879-1935) | |
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Rogers-isms, the Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference |
By: Mark Lemon (1809-1870) | |
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How to Make a Man of Consequence
Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the writing of plays. More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London, whilst at the same time he was contributing to a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, and was founding editor of both Punch and The Field. |
By: Henry Wallace Phillips (1869-1930) | |
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Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters | |
Red Saunders His Adventures West & East | |
Mr. Scraggs |
By: J. Thorne Smith, Jr. (1892-1934) | |
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Biltmore Oswald
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully ill prepared for his arrival and dubious contribution. (Introduction by Nigel Boydell) |
By: Thomas Hood (1799-1845) | |
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Workhouse Clock
There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent expatriation. Beyond this, little presents itself for record in the outward facts of this upright and beneficial career, bright with genius and coruscating with wit, dark with the lengthening and deepening shadow of death. |
By: George A. (George Alexander) Morton (1857-) | |
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Law and Laughter |
By: Mary Belle Freeley | |
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Fair to Look Upon |
By: F. Anstey (1856-1934) | |
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Bayard from Bengal
The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manners, which immediately mark him as a foreigner, and embarks on an enviable program of escapades. These stories are the product of the fertile imagination of Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., a nom de plume for the humorist F. Anstey, which is a further nom de plume for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Whether rescuing a nubile maiden from a charging bull or falling in love with said nubile maiden, Mr. Bosh, B. A. cannot help but perform with the requisite humor to engage our attention. |
By: George W. Carleton (1832-1901) | |
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Our Artist in Cuba Fifty drawings on wood. Leaves from the Sketch-book of a traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5. |
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. |