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Xingu

Edith Wharton

Xingu is a short humorous story blended with satire and wit on women societies written by American novelist, Edith Wharton, the first woman to won Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1921.Excer..

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 48, September 18, 1841

Various Authors

Mrs. Pilcher was “the moral of a nurse;” she was about forty-eight and had, according to her own account, “been the mother of eighteen lovely babes, born in wedlock,” though her most intimate friends ..

The Golfer's Rubaiyat

Henry Walcott Boynton

The Golfer's Rubaiyat is a humorous poetry written by Henry Walcott Boynton, an American author and a former head of the department of English at Phillips Academy...

The Wrong Box

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tont..

The History of Mr. Polly

H. G. Wells

The History of Mr. Polly is a comic novel written by Herbert George Wells, who was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social ..

Gullible's Travels

Ring Lardner

Gullible's Travels is a humorous story written by Ring Lardner, an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre..

Seven Men

Sir Max Beerbohm

In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively enough) Max Beerbohm wrote short biographies of six imagina..

And Even Now

Sir Max Beerbohm

This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's wor..