Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime howeve...
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known today for the...
Miss Civilization, a one act comedy, tells the story of a young woman who matches wits with three burglars attempting to rob her house. This recordin...
Nei 12 volumi delle "Favole" (1669 - 1693) Jean de La Fontaine rinnovò la tradizione esopica, rappresentando la commedia umana. Quest'opera dimostrò i...
Alphonse Allais est un journaliste, écrivain et humoriste français célèbre à la Belle Époque, connu pour sa plume acerbe et son humour absurde. (adapt...
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an ent...
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittie...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of The Je Ne Scai Quoi by William Whitehead. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of M...
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his w...
Sir John Suckling (1609-42) was one of the Cavalier poets at the court of King Charles I of England. He took up arms in the conflicts of that era but...
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This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evid...
This volume in the series, Sleepy-Time Tales, follows the adventures of Master Meadow Mouse as he moves his home to various (safer) places, and tells...
Le « Dictionnaire des idées reçues » : recueil d’exemples de l’intelligence humaine qui se dépasse elle-même. Les temps changent ; ce genre d’intellig...
"Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground" is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel that follows the adventures of Niels Klim, a Norwegian student wh...
Stephen Leacock's "Nonsense Novels" is a collection of ten short stories that playfully poke fun at various aspects of life. The stories are filled wi...
Caroline Auguste Fischer's 'Märchen' is a collection of satirical fairy tales that critique the social and political norms of her time. Through wit an...
Jerome K. Jerome's "Tea-Table Talk" offers a glimpse into Victorian and Edwardian society through a series of imagined conversations between diverse c...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a comic novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in...
This collection of poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar explores themes of race, social justice, and the human condition with a sharp wit and keen eye for de...
This collection of short stories by Artur de Azevedo, a prominent Brazilian author of the 19th century, offers a glimpse into the social fabric and cu...
This collection of Canadian humour features representative works from some of the country's best-known writers. It includes a variety of pieces, from...
Helen Rowland's "Guide to Men" is a collection of witty observations and reflections on the complexities of relationships between men and women. Throu...
Camilla, Frances Burney's third novel, delves into the complexities of love, courtship, and societal expectations in late 18th-century England. The st...
