Books: What to Know
Old Books That Are Actually Funny
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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4,111 humour
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A Horse's Tale
Mark Twain · novel
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A House-Boat on the Styx
John Kendrick Bangs · novel
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A Humorous History of England
Charles -1943 Harrison · history
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A jest and a vengeance
E. Hoffmann Price · short story
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A Jolly by Josh
ideas
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A Journalist's Note-Book
Frank Frankfort Moore · ideas
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A Journey from This World to the Next
Henry Fielding · novel
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A Journey of a Jayhawker
W. Y. Morgan · travel
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A journey to the world under-ground
Ludvig Holberg · novel
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A Knight on Wheels
Ian Hay · novel
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A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Gertrude Forde · travel
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A Lame Dog's Diary
S. Macnaughtan · novel
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A laugh a day keeps the doctor away
Irvin S. Cobb · short story
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A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726)
Henry Carey · novel
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A Lecture On Heads
George Alexander Stevens · play
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A Legacy of Fun
Abraham Lincoln · biography
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A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope
Colley Cibber · play
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A Likely Story
William Dean Howells · play
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A Likely Story
Damon Knight · short story
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A Likely Story
William De Morgan · novel
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A line o' gowf or two
Bert Leston Taylor · poetry
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A line-o'-verse or two
Bert Leston Taylor · poetry
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A Little Bit of Fluff: A Farce in Three Acts
Walter Ellis · play
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A Little Book of Bores
Oliver Herford · poetry
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A Little Book of Profitable Tales
Eugene Field · short story
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A Little Change: A Farce in One Scene
Sydney Grundy · play
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A Little Dinner at Timmins's
William Makepeace Thackeray · novel
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A Little Fleet
Jack B. Yeats · novel
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A little help for Hawkins
W. C. Tuttle · short story
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A little philosophy of life
Robert J. Burdette · ideas
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A Little Question in Ladies' Rights
Parker Fillmore · novel
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A Little Rebel
Duchess · novel
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A Little Tour in Ireland
S. Reynolds Hole · travel
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A lyttel booke of nonsense
Randall Davies · poetry
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A Madeira Party
S. Weir Mitchell · novel
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A Maid and a Million Men
James G. Dunton · novel
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A Man and His Money
Frederic Stewart Isham · novel
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A man made of money
Douglas William Jerrold · novel
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A Man of Means
P. G. Wodehouse · short story
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A Man of Samples. Something about the men he met "On the Road"
William H. Maher · novel
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A Man-Sized Pet
W. C. Tuttle · short story
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A Masque of Days
Charles Lamb · poetry
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A master of craft
W. W. Jacobs · novel
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A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives
Desiderius Erasmus · play
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A message from Mars
Richard Ganthony · play
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A Message From Our Sponsor
Henry Slesar · short story
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A Mixed Proposal
W. W. Jacobs · short story
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A Moral Alphabet
Hilaire Belloc · poetry