Humor
- Witty Social Satire
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Witty Essays and Observations
- Classic Radio Comedies
- Humorous Dramas and Comedies
Uncle's Dream
Uncle’s Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. F…
Humorous Ghost Stories
Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde -- The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess -- …
Gambler's World
Here are two stores starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. As a diplomat, Retief does not always follow procedure…
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age is a captivating collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, showcasing the vibrancy and complexity of …
Vagabond Adventures
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same litera…
The Canterville Ghost
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expe…
The Awful German Language
This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, compl…
Space Casey
Some heroines will steal your heart. This one will steal your wallet. In the future, mankind has expanded to fill the solar system, but when…
The Curious Republic of Gondour
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from poli…
Once a Week
Once a Week is a delightful collection of short stories by A. A. Milne, the celebrated author of Winnie the Pooh. Originally published in th…
Mark Twain's Journal Writings
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…
The Swoop!
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. I…
The House of Cobwebs
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a sharp and satirical exploration of morality and hypocrisy, penned by the renowned Mark Twain. Set in …
The Stolen Bacillus
A collection of 15 humorous short stories by the original master of speculative fiction: H. G. Wells. This was the first collection of short…
Project Mastodon
Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time travel in his own unique way in this story. What if a group of guys did it on their own,…
Yiddish Tales
A collection of 48 wonderful English language stories from Sholem Alechem, I. L. Perez, Shalom Asch, and others. Tales of humour and drama, …
Three Men in a Boat
A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men are base…
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion captures the whimsical spirit of Mark Twain as he recounts a journey to Bermuda with friends. This …
Emma
Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance....As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and dif…