Humor Books

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

H. G. Wells

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction story written by Herbert George Wells was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short sto..

The Female Quixote

The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the maiden love of a Romance. While the don thinks it his duty ..

Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story

Sir Max Beerbohm

Zuleika Dobson an Oxford love story is a satirical novel by Max Beerbohm, an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a h..

The Little Warrior

P. G. Wodehouse

The Little Warrior is a humorous love story written by P. G. Wodehouse, an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.Excerpts:Freddie looked at him as a timid y..

The Rivals - A Comedy

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Rivals is a comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in five acts which was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 January 1775. The story has been updated in numerous adaptions, inc..

Max und Moritz

Wilhelm Busch

Max und Moritz: Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen is a collection of humorous poems and practical jokes written for children in German language by Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch, a Germa..

They and I

Jerome K. Jerome

They and I is a country life fiction story written by Jerome K. Jerome,  an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat, The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fell..

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726)

Henry Carey

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) is a satire by Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon KG, was an English nobleman and courtier. He was the patron of Lord Chamberlain's Men, William Shakespeare'..