Genre
Humor.
From the playful satire of Cervantes and Voltaire to Twain’s sharp American wit, our humor collection gathers centuries of laughter in one place. These aren’t just jokes—they’re the stories that taught us to poke fun at pretension, absurdity, and the everyday. Curl up with a classic that still knows how to land a punchline.
Children
Cautionary Tales for Children
Hilaire Belloc's wickedly funny verse follows children who lie, slam doors, chew string and generally misbehave, and meet gloriously exaggerated fates.
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Fiction
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
A gallery of England's oddest characters and strangest doings, gathered from history and legend into an affectionate celebration of misers, hermits, impostors, cranks and curiositi
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$8.50
Fiction
Sketches New and Old
A collection of Mark Twain's short comic pieces and sketches, ranging from tall tales to satire, showcasing the wit, mischief, and sharp social observation that made him America's
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$8.50
Essays
The Humbugs of the World
P.
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$7.00
Children
Penrod
Booth Tarkington’s comic portrait of Midwestern boyhood follows Penrod Schofield through pranks, friendships, and social embarrassment.
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$7.50
Fiction
The Torrents of Spring
A short novel about love, memory, and the ache of a passion recalled from later life.
$8.50
History
Comic History of the United States
Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.
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Classics
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais's riotous Renaissance saga of two giants — a torrent of comedy, satire, learning and appetite that celebrates the body, the mind and the freedom of laughter.
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$8.50
Fiction
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
A collection of P.
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Humor
Following the Equator
Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.
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Classics
Lysistrata
Aristophanes' riotous anti-war comedy, in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to force their husbands to lay down arms.
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$9.00
Fiction
The Daughter of Anderson Crow
A lively small-town tale centered on a colorful local figure and the mystery surrounding a young woman in his care.
$9.50
Classics
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
Laurence Sterne's gloriously digressive comic novel, forever wandering off the point.
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$9.50
Crime
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
A short work whose brisk, arresting title promises incident and consequence.
$9.00
Fantasy
The Green Mouse
Robert W.
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Fiction
Miss Mapp
E.
$9.50
Fiction
Torchy and Vee
More breezy adventures of Torchy, the wisecracking office boy turned man about business, told in the fast, slangy patter that made the series a comic favourite.
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$9.50
Classics
Candide
Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.
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$9.50
Children
Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A.
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Humor
Roughing It
Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.
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$9.00
Essays
Love and Freindship [sic]
Jane Austen, barely a teenager, takes a scalpel to the sentimental novel.
$8.00
Humor
Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects
A collection of political pamphlets and parodies, using satire, wit and pointed argument to skewer the issues and figures of their day.
$8.50
Classics
One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories: Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Joll
A bawdy, high-spirited collection of Renaissance tales in the tradition of Boccaccio: a hundred short stories of wit, mischief, love, and folly, told for the pleasure of good compa
$9.50
Humor
The Comic English Grammar
A witty Victorian send-up of the dry grammar book, teaching the rules of English through humour, satire and comic example, so that the driest of subjects becomes an unexpected sour
$9.50
Biography & Memoir
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert them
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$9.00
Adventure
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a witty, inventive classic that blends time travel, satire, adventure, and social criticism.
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$9.00
Essays
A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or countr
Jonathan Swift's ferocious 1729 satire, straight-faced and monstrous, coolly proposing that the poor of Ireland sell their children as food.
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Essays
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett's comic epistolary masterpiece sends a cantankerous squire and his household on a rollicking tour of eighteenth-century Britain, told through their clashing letters
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Classics
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde’s sparkling social comedy turns false names, courtship, and perfect manners into one of the sharpest and funniest plays in English.
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Classics
Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas Hardy's gentlest novel follows a village choir facing extinction and a young schoolmistress courted by three suitors, offering a warm, wry pastoral of a rural England alread
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$7.00
Classics
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell's affectionate portrait of a small English town governed by its genteel spinsters turns everyday visits, small economies and quiet losses into comedy of the trues
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Classics
Love and Freindship
Jane Austen wrote this gleeful spoof of sentimental fiction as a teenager, and its fainting heroines and absurd coincidences reveal the razor wit that would later power her great n
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$5.00
Classics
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.
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$9.50
Classics
Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens's great comic satire on selfishness and greed.
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$5.00
Adventure
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer’s world is sunlit and sly, where fence-painting becomes a con and treasure hunts turn treacherous.
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$5.00
Adventure
Don Quixote
A deluded knight and his loyal squire wander the Spanish countryside, mistaking windmills for giants and inns for castles.
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$13.50