Humorous Fiction
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Hank Morgan, an engineer living in Hartford, Connecticut in the late 19th century, gets knocked out ..
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn captures the essence of a time when most Americans lived on farms and..
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Candide, or the Optimism
Is this the best of all possible worlds? The title character in Voltaire’s classic novel, Candide, d..
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Cyrano de Bergerac
The title character of Cyrano de Bergerac is a fictionalization of the basic facts life of a real pe..
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a comic novel that follows the escapades and dalliances of a young blond..
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Gulliver's Travels
George Orwell called Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift one of the six essential works in all of l..
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Leave It to Jeeves
The many tales in the Jeeves series by P. G. Wodehouse involve the dynamic between the young, wealth..
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My Man Jeeves
My Man Jeeves (1919) is the first in a series of sixteen immensely popular books by P. G. Wodehouse ..
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Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) is the second novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the unflappable character o..
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is an All-American Boy living in a time when America is still young and unencumbered by t..
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims who ..
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The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is a satirical dictionary that contains witty and ironic de..
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
One gilds things to make them look better than they really are. Mark Twain, the same writer who turn..
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The Golden Ass
The Metamorphosis of Apuleius, which has come to be called The Golden Ass, the name given it by St. ..
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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper was Mark Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction, published in Canada,..
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The Silence Dogood Letters
During his teenage years Benjamin Franklin worked as an apprentice printer at his older brother’s pr..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is a comic novel written by English author Jerome K...
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Utopia
Sir Thomas More invented the word “utopia” by blending words from Greek meaning “no place” as a titl..
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Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
The train rumbles to a stop at Oxford Station. A gaggle of students awaiting family arrivals is imme..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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