Genre: Humor (59 books)
The best classic books from the Humor genre.
Scoop
While still a young man, John Courteney Boot had, as his publisher proclaimed, 'achieved an assured and enviable position in contemporary letters'.
The Code of the Woosters
I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves.
The Day of the Locust
Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office.
Dealing with Dragons
Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable. The climate was unremarkable. The knights kept their armor brightly polished mainly for show -- it had been centuries since a dragon had come east. There were the usual periodic problems with royal children and uninvited fairy godmothers, but they were always the sort of thing that could be cleared up by finding the proper prince or princess to marry the unfortunate child a few years later. All in all, Linderwall was a very prosperous and pleasant place. Cimorene hated it.
Henderson the Rain King
What made me take this trip to Africa? There is no quick explanation. Things got worse and worse and worse and pretty soon they were too complicated.
Tales of the City
Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time.
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