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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 48, September 18, 1841
Various AuthorsMrs. 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 BoyntonThe 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 StevensonThe 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. WellsThe 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 LardnerGullible'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 BeerbohmIn 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 BeerbohmThis 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..
The Swoop!
P. G. WodehouseThe Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standi..