Humor Books

The Giant's Robe

F. Anstey

The Giant's Robe is a humorous fiction work by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, an English author, most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities.Auth..

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

Stephen Leacock

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." Like that..

The Doctor's Dilemma - Preface on Doctors

George Bernard Shaw

The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw first staged in 1906. It is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of..

Brewster's Millions

George Barr McCutcheon

Brewster's Millions is a humorous fiction story written by George Barr McCutcheon, an American popular novelist and playwright.  He is also the author of Graustark, Beverly of Graustark..

Beasts and Super-Beasts

H. H. Munro

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. Along with The Chronicles of C..

Love Conquers All

Robert Benchley

Love Conquers All, originally published in 1922 is the second collection (of fifteen) gathering together Benchley's humorous essays and reviews. Some references are dated, of course, but the surreal a..

Comic History of the United States

Bill Nye

This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic ..

Letters of Travel (1892-1913)

Rudyard Kipling

Three books of travel writing by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in India) offers an interesting outsider's vi..