Humor Books

The Hole Book

Peter Newell

Old Granny Fink was sound asleep—As sound as one could wish;Beside her an aquariumWas standing, stocked with fish:The bullet struck the crystal globe,And roused her from her nap—And Granny found that ..

The Asbestos Society of Sinners

Lawrence Daniel Fogg

The Asbestos Society of Sinners: detailing the diversions of Dives and others on the playground of Pluto, with some broken threads of drop-stitch history, picked up by a newspaper man in Hades and wov..

In a Canadian Canoe

Barry Pain

What a beautiful thing it is to lie at full length on the cushions, and see the sky through the trees—only the angels see the trees through the sky. My boat has taken me round to the back of Queen’s, ..

Sam in the Suburbs

P. G. Wodehouse

He yawned spaciously. Hash Todhunter was a lean, stringy man in the early thirties, with a high forehead and a ruminative eye. Irritated messmates who had played poker with him had sometimes compared ..

Hadrian the Seventh

Frederick Rolfe

The armchair was placed directly in front of the fireplace, the ordinary garret-coloured iron fireplace and mantel of a suburban lodging-house attic. To the grey wall above the mantel a large sheet of..

THISTLEDOWN

Robert Ford

An eminently learned and genial ex-Professor of one of our Universities not long since pointed out how Scotland was remarkable for three things—Songs, Sermons, and Shillings. And whilst it may not be ..

The Silver Stallion: A Comedy of Redemptio

James Branch Cabell

And meanwhile too the Redeemer’s wife, Dame Niafer, had sent a summoning to each of the nine lords that, with Manuel, were of the Fellowship of the Silver Stallion: and all these met at Storisende, as..