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Humour
8 public-domain humour books, summarised. Page 1 of 1.
The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870
Martin, Theodore, Sir
The cleverest way to deflate a giant is to mimic his voice until he sounds like a fool. This collection of parodies turns the high-minded pomposity of the nineteenth century into a masterclass of satirical wit.
The Comic English Grammar: A New And Facetious Introduction To The English Tongue
Percival Leigh
Language is a living, breathing, and often hilarious thing, and learning its rules needn’t feel like a sentence in a damp classroom. When we approach grammar with a wink rather than a rod, we discover that the most rigid linguistic structures are actually quite flexible, provided we know which buttons to push.
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories: Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Jollity
Robert B. (Robert Bruce) Douglas
In a world of medieval courtly intrigue, where wits are sharpened against the whetstone of scandal, laughter becomes the only currency that never devalues.
Humorous Ghost Stories
Dorothy Scarborough
When the veil between the living and the dead wears thin, it is not always a chilling hand that reaches through—sometimes, it is a comedian in a sheet.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II
Augustus De Morgan
A curious archive of scientific obsession, this collection examines the persistent, often humorous, and always human struggle to solve the unsolvable.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
Douglas English
These vivid, unsentimental sketches capture the frantic, hidden lives of British wildlife, where survival is a daily gamble against predators, machines, and the indifferent cycles of the seasons.
Niels Klim's journey under the ground: being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands
Ludvig Holberg
HOOK A vain student falls through one world after another, only to find each place stranger, flatter, and sharper than the last. What begins as an impossible descent turns into a satire of ambition, learning, and power.
Tres Comedias : Sin querer
Jacinto Benavente
HOOK: A clever comedy of masks, marriage, and money keeps turning sincerity into strategy. What begins as trickery ends by asking whether love is the one thing that cannot be faked.