Books tagged with Humor & Comedy[7 found]
Whilomville Stories
by Stephen Crane
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
In a scruffy little American town, boys test courage in street brawls, secret clubs, and dangerous dares, while adults blunder through pride, gossip, and small cruelties. Through mishaps both comic and painful, childhood innocence collides with harsh lessons, revealing how character is forged in skinned knees and stubborn hearts.
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The Diary of a Goose Girl
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
An American abroad takes a summer post herding geese on an English farm, keeping a sprightly diary of mud-splashed lessons, quarrelsome ganders, and neighbors who trade gossip like currency. Between market-days and May-day revels she finds unexpected pride in honest work—and a tender romance that waddles into her path—discovering how a small village can enlarge a heart.
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Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
by Hector H. Munro
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
From snowbound trains to gilded salons, a mercilessly witty observer skewers cant, class, and credulity in crisp sketches that slip from drawing-room farce to little shocks of cruelty. Priests, princes, aunts, and aesthetes all fall to his epigrams, while travel misadventures and social skirmishes reveal the elegant savagery of manners—and the joke that always lands with claws.
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Reginald
by Hector H. Munro
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A devastatingly witty young man drifts through drawing rooms, garden parties, and country-house weekends, tossing epigrams like grenades. With insolent charm he punctures piety, meddles in romances, and turns petty scandals into art. These razor-edged sketches of Edwardian society revel in mischief, elegance, and the perilous sport of saying exactly the wrong thing beautifully.
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Stage-Land
by Jerome K. Jerome
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A witty and entertaining collection of stories and sketches offers a humorous glimpse behind the scenes of theater life. Full of satire, clever observations, and lively characters, it captures the joys and absurdities of the stage with charm and insight.
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The Vegetable
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A timid clerk seethes with grand dreams of becoming President, egged on and mocked by his ambitious wife, noisy in-laws, and a blur of speakeasies, trains, and absurd campaign promises. When a wild night hurls him into a surreal shot at power, he must decide whether glory beats simply being left in peace, or if the real joke is on every American dreamer.
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Love and Freindship
by Jane Austen
Categories: Fiction » Humor & Comedy
A playful and satirical look at youthful romance and social ambition, following characters whose passions, schemes, and misunderstandings lead to humorous and unexpected outcomes. Wit and irony reveal the folly of love and friendship in a world driven by manners and appearances.
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