Author: Elizabeth Inchbald

Language: English

Published: 1786

Language: English

Published: 1862

Language: English

Published: 1915

A compilation of some of the most prominent humorists of Ireland. Edited by Charles L. Graves.

Language: English

Edited by Sir John Alexander Hammerton, this is a book packed with humour.

Author: Henry Wallace Phillips

Language: English

Published: 1905

Author: John Wight

Language: English

Published: 1875

Close to one hundred humorous stories about petty crimes.

Language: Esperanto

Published: 1908

written by one of the pioneers in the esperanto movement

Author: Various Authors

Language: English

Published: 1893

edited by Sir Francis Burnand

Author: Various Authors

Language: English

Published: 1893

Author: Heywood Broun

Language: English

Published: 1922

No less than forty-two articles featured in this quite funny and thought-provoking title. Don't skip the preface, it's hilarious!

Language: English

Published: 1893

One of the great weekly magazines of the time - filled with satire and humour.

Language: English

Published: 1893

One of the great weekly magazines of the time - filled with satire and humour.

Language: German

Published: 1920

Early 20th centrury german humor, delivered in the form of one-liners.

Author: Harry Graham

Language: English

Published: 1903

Author: Ian Hay

Language: English

Published: 1914

A series of sketches which the humorist, Ian Hay, has been publishing in Blackwood's under the above title, has more than anecdotal interest to those who can see In the boy the father of the man. Mr. Hay expresses the dominant quality as a dislike for mental cleverness coupled with "worship of force of character."

Author: Max O'Rell

Language: English

Published: 1889

Max O'Rell, in this volume of impressions of America and the Americans, gives us the brightest and best work he has yet done. While often severe, he is always kind. Altogether the book is very lively reading and will unquestionably excite the interest of every American citizen who wants to know what a keen-eyed, intelligent, and witty Frenchman has to say of him and of his country.

The Punch Library of Humour

Author: John Alexander Hammerton

Language: English

Author: Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena

Language: Italian

Published: 1912

Author: Agostino Ricchi

Language: Italian

Published: 1912

Author: Francesco Belo

Language: Italian

Published: 1912

Language: English

Published: 1876

A satiric comedy in an urban setting first printed in the Queenslander in 1876 and ascribed to Dramingo, a pen-name used by Favenc.

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Language: English

Published: 1901

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Language: English

Published: 1892

"Jimmieboy" has added two years to his age since his adventures with the Tiddledywinks, and is consequently a much brighter boy than he was at that time. His adventures in the camp of the Tin Soldiers are most amusing, and the book promises to be a very general favorite with thelittle people.

Author: John Kendrick Bangs

Language: English

Published: 1911

Mr. Bangs turns his light and ingenious fancy to the task of retelling the familiar fairy tales of our youthful days. In several of them it is Wall Street that replaces the land of "Never-Never" and "Once Upon a Time," and the personages in the drama are more interested in high finance than in fairy treasures. It is all admirable fooling, and done in the author's best vein.

Language: English

Published: 1926

Author: Abby Morton Diaz

Language: English

Published: 1870

Few ventures in Juvenile Literature met with such wonderful success as the "William Henry Letters," and few more richly deserved it. The Letters were so natural, fresh and original, such an amusing and rollicking sketch of genuine boy nature, that all boys — and girls as well — and all who remembered when they were boys, equally enjoyed the readmg of those astonishing Letters, illustrated as they were by William Henry himself. All that is necessary to say of the present volume is that it is a sequel to that, and worthy of its " illustrious predecessor."

Author: Constance Fenimore Woolson

Language: English

Published: 1889

Cicely Abercrombie, a little devil of a Southern girl, married John Bruce, a Northern soldier. He was madly in love with the girl, and carried her by storm after a brief siege. They had a child, and then Bruce died. In a few months the widow herself fell madly in love with a handsome, gay Southerner, Ferdinand Morrison, and married him with a willful perversity which was not in the least weakened when it turned out that Ferdie, as everybody in the book feels bound to call him, had an hereditary tendency to a mixture of insanity and delirium tremens. In one of his moments of aberration Ferdie struck Cicely, and slung little Jack out of his crib, breaking his arm. He then disappeared to the convenient remoteness of Valparaiso, to wait till the novelist wanted him for dark and dreadful purposes.

Author: Charles G.D. Roberts

Language: English

Published: 1902

The romance opens with the flight of Barbara (then a eirl of fourteen) by night through the woods to a little lake and down the river in her birch-bark canoe with her little kittens, to escape from the Puritan rigidities of a New England aunt, and' throw herself upon the protection of a wild young southern uncle, who has always been her chum, and who understands her gypsy caprices. There is said to be fighting galore, and dancing in Boston and flirting everywhere, with a really novel form of duel, and a daring feat in swimming accomplished by the sweet gypsy, Mistress Barbara Ladd.

Author: Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Language: English

Published: 1911

Language: English

Published: 1901