Tag: Humorous Fiction

Love Among the Chickens

Comedy Fiction Novel

Love Among the Chickens is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published as a book in the United Kingdom in June 1906 by George Newnes, London, and in t...

Love Among the Chickens

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P. G. Wodehouse

The Gentle Grafter

Satire Fiction

If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" instead of the "Gentle Grafter"...

The Gentle Grafter

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O. Henry

The Princess

Poetry Romance Fiction

The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United King...

The Princess

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Lord Alfred Tennyson

The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

Fiction

More stories by Canadian Stephen Leacock. Some of these stories carry over characters introduced in Further Foolishness. Some stories are humourous; s...

The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities

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Stephen Leacock

Zuleika Dobson

Satire Fiction Novel

T Zuleika Dobson, full title Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story, is the only novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford pub...

Zuleika Dobson

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Max Beerbohm

Once a Week

Fiction Humour

A collection of short stories by famed Winnie the Pooh author, A.A. Milne. This charmingly humorous work from Milne's earlier writing period was first...

Once a Week

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A. A. Milne

Hunger

Novel

Hunger is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hailed as the literary opening o...

Hunger

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Knut Hamsun

Fables in Slang

Humour

A delightful read and an interesting look at America at the beginning of the 20th Century. In terms of prejudice, class, and injustice generally, it's...

Fables in Slang

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George Ade

Mary Broome: A Comedy in Four Acts

Satire

In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their v...

Mary Broome: A Comedy in Four Acts

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Allan Monkhouse

Brazilian Tales

Humour Reference work

"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period - t...

Brazilian Tales

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Various

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

Humour

Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock.

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

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Stephen Leacock

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

Romance Humour

Mr. Wrenn, an employee of a novelty company, quits his job after inheriting a fortune from his father. He decides to go traveling.

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

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Sinclair Lewis

Doctor Ox's Experiment

Adventure Action

The setting of the story is the imaginary village of Quiquendone in West Flanders whose citizens are described as "well-to-do folks, wise, prudent, so...

Doctor Ox's Experiment

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Jules Verne

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

Fiction Humour

The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-l...

Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven

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Mark Twain

The King of Schnorrers

Humour Non-Fiction

Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of late 18th-cen...

The King of Schnorrers

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Israel Zangwill

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