Category Archives: Humorous Fiction

Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-leaves

Author(s): James Branch Cabell Would-be author of romance Gerald Musgrave, southern gentleman and member of...

The Shadow of the Unseen

Author(s): Barry PainJames Blyth A supernatural melodrama, set in the Fens and Marshlands of Cambridgeshire,...

Humorous Ghost Stories

Author(s): Various Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough — The Canterville ghost / by Oscar...

Napoleon of Notting Hill

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting...

Centuries Apart

Author(s): Edward T. Bouvé Centuries Apart is about a group of Civil War Union soldiers...

New Adventures of Alice (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Author(s): John Rae After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and...

The Early Misadventures of Toffee

Author(s): Henry Farrell Included in this collection are the first two stories featuring that wonderfully...

The Swoop!

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several...

Two Poe Tales

Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror...

Doctor Ox’s Experiment

Author(s): Jules Verne An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It...

Told after Supper

Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry...

The Enchanted Typewriter

Author(s): John Kendrick Bangs The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the...

House-Boat on the Styx

Author(s): John Kendrick Bangs The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever...

Wodehouse Miscellany

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed...

Uncle Remus Returns

Author(s): Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus tells these 11 stories but to the son of...

Uncle Remus & Friends

Author(s): Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these...

Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

Author(s): Stephen Leacock Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)

William The Outlaw (Abridged)

Author(s): Richmal Crompton This 1927 abridged book contains seven of the ten hilarious adventures by...

Where There’s a Will

Author(s): Mary Roberts Rinehart Minnie Waters has been running the Hope Spring health resort for...

Tramp Abroad

Author(s): Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American...

Vice Versa

Author(s): F. Anstey Set in Victorian times, the novel concerns business man Paul Bultitude and...

Ukridge

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse “Do not count your chickens before they are hatched” is a...

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit

Author(s): Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus’ stories feature a trickster hero called Br’er Rabbit (“Brother”...

You Should Worry Says John Henry

Author(s): Hugh McHugh A “not-so-always politically correct” commentary is delivered by the humorous and likeable...

The Semi-Detached House

Author(s): Emily Eden If you’re a Jane Austen fan, you’ll enjoy Emily Eden’s comic novels...

The Stainless Steel Rat – the Novel

Author(s): Harry Harrison James Bolivar diGriz alias Slippery Jim alias The Stainless Steel Rat. Interstellar...

The White Linen Nurse

Author(s): Eleanor Hallowell Abbott The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted...

There is a Tavern in the Town

Author(s): James Stephens The soul of Irish wit is captured in this unique tale of...

The Young Visiters

Author(s): Daisy Ashford The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class...

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 10

Author(s): Various The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this,...