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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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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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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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Booth Tarkington’s comic portrait of Midwestern boyhood follows Penrod Schofield through pranks, friendships, and social embarrassment.

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A short novel about love, memory, and the ache of a passion recalled from later life.

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Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.

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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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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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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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A lively small-town tale centered on a colorful local figure and the mystery surrounding a young woman in his care.

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Laurence Sterne's gloriously digressive comic novel, forever wandering off the point.

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A short work whose brisk, arresting title promises incident and consequence.

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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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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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Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.

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Jane Austen, barely a teenager, takes a scalpel to the sentimental novel.

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A collection of political pamphlets and parodies, using satire, wit and pointed argument to skewer the issues and figures of their day.

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charles Dickens's great comic satire on selfishness and greed.

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Tom Sawyer’s world is sunlit and sly, where fence-painting becomes a con and treasure hunts turn treacherous.

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A deluded knight and his loyal squire wander the Spanish countryside, mistaking windmills for giants and inns for castles.

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