Humor Books

The Seven Lively Arts

Gilbert Seldes

This book was written while on holiday some three thousand miles away from data, documents, and means of verification. It is written from memory and, although I have had time and have tried to check u..

Horse Sense in Verses Tense

Walt Mason

Why do people ever write any other kind of books, unless because no one else can write Walt Mason’s kind?. His is an extraordinary faculty, surely God-given. Many a world-weary one, refreshed at the f..

The Battle of the Bells

Jerome Bixby

The three old men turned and saw a tall, handsome, blond young man, dressed in a neat and utterly clean white suit, standing in the center of the yard. His face wore an expression of perfect peace and..

On Strike, or, Where do the Girls come in?

Edric Glenfield

It is generally known that barmaids are looked down upon on account of the position they hold. I myself should not wish to see my sister behind a bar; but if my sister was in Australia, and had to wor..

Stern

Bruce Jay Friedman

Stern had held the smile on his own face as he drove by, letting it get smaller and smaller and sitting very stiffly, as though he expected something to hit him on the back of the head. On one other o..

Bottoms Up - An Application of the Slapstick to Satire

George Jean Nathan

Agatha did not answer. She could not trust her voice. There was a mist before her eyes. She sat there thinking, thinking, thinking. It was just a year ago tonight that Dave, her husband, had parted fr..

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Anita Loos

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady is a humorous novel written by Anita Loos. Well last evening Dorothy called up and Dorothy said she has met a gentleman who..

One Hundered Years a Republic. Our Show

Daisy Shortcut

A Humorous Account of the International Exposition in Honor of the Centennial Anniversary of American Independence, from Inception to Completion, Including Description of Buildings, Biographies of Man..