Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen. It was completed in 1803, the first of Austen’s novels...
Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and famili...
Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, "A little, true book, not less...
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known today for the...
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a defiant ve...
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" is an essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. It draws...
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Washington Irving, un...
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the c...
Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one even...
An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting was a conduct book written by Jane Collier and published in 1753. The Essay was Collier's first work, an...
You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by George Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw's...
A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the authorship of the Shakespearean literary can...
Lesley Castle is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was sixteen years old. Although the novels Austen became known fo...
The story begins with a simple love triangle in which a Spanish count has fallen in love with a girl called Rosine. He disguises himself to ensure tha...
In this, a man who finds himself stranded in the suburbs after a series of misadventures.
Set in the early 20th century, "Sam in the Suburbs" is a cl...
It follows the life of a young girl named Heloise, who is the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Venice.
Written in 1924, "The Priceless Pearl" is a c...
It follows the misadventures of John Henry, a hapless character who is constantly getting into trouble due to his own foolishness. McHugh's writing st...
The book tells the story of John Henry, a young man who experiences a series of comical misadventures as he navigates through life.
Set in the early...
It is a story of life in London during the early 20th century, with a focus on the wealthy and influential members of society.
The book explores the...
The play is set in Athens and revolves around a miserly old man named Euclio who has discovered a large pot of gold buried in his house. The play foll...
This engaging play explores the intricacies of marriage and societal expectations with a clever blend of wit, satire, and uproarious humor.
Written i...
It is a captivating and humorous book that explores the world of fictional characters and the comical situations they find themselves in. Written by t...
Discover a collection of captivating tales in "The Mantle and Other Stories" by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol. Written by the renowned Russian author, thi...
