Humor Books

Count Bunker

J. Storer Clouston

Count Bunker is the sequel to J. Storer Clouston's wildly popular comedic romp, The Lunatic at Large. In this equally amusing follow-up, old pals Baron Rudolph von Blitzenberg and Francis Mandell-Essi..

The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes

Various Authors

The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes contains Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection contributed by various authors...

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literat..

De Lotgevallen van Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

De Lotgevallen van Tom Sawyer is the dutch version of Mark Twain's most popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Excerpts:Wacht! daar hoort ze plotseling een licht gedruisch achter zich en zij keer..

Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.The book was intended initi..

A Book of Nonsense

Edward Lear

A Book of Nonsense is a collection of humorous poems written by Edward Lear, an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose a..

Ptomaine Street - The Tale of Warble Petticoat

Carolyn Wells

Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat is a A parody on Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street." On a Pittsburgh block, where three generations ago might have been heard Indian war-whoops—yes, and the n..

The Magic Pudding

Norman Lindsay

The Magic Pudding: Being The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff is an Australian children's book written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a comic fantas..