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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Lyra Frivola
A. D. Godley · poetry
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Lyre and Lancet: A Story in Scenes
F. Anstey · play
The story in one page
Lysistrata
The men won't stop fighting, so the women stop everything else. War loses its supply line.
Aristophanes · play
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M. P.'s in Session: From Mr. Punch's Parliamentary Portrait Gallery
Harry Furniss · play
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Ma Pettengill
Harry Leon Wilson · novel
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Madame Gilbert's Cannibal
Bennet Copplestone · novel
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Made to Measure
W. W. Jacobs · novel
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Magic
G. K. Chesterton · play
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Maid Marian, and Other Stories
Molly Elliot Seawell · short story
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Maid—To Order
Hal Annas · short story
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Make me an offer
Con Blomberg · short story
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Make Mine Homogenized
Rick Raphael · short story
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Making Good for Muley
W. C. Tuttle · novel
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Making Over Martha
Julie M. Lippmann · novel
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Making Up with Mr. Dog
Albert Bigelow Paine · novel
The story in one page
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
A man tries to outrun his own marriage, but Ann Whitefield is a very persistent guardian.
Bernard Shaw · play
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Man in a Sewing Machine
L. J. Jr. Stecher · novel
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Man-Trap
Hal Annas · short story
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Man's Best Friend
Evelyn E. Smith · short story
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Manalive
G. K. Chesterton · novel
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Manners & Cvstoms of ye Englyshe
Richard Doyle · novel
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Manners for the metropolis
Frank Crowninshield · novel
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Manners Makyth Man
W. W. Jacobs · short story
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Many cargoes
W. W. Jacobs · short story
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Many happy returns of the day!
Ellis Parker Butler · ideas
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Marge Askinforit
Barry Pain · novel
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Marjorie in Command
Carolyn Wells · novel
The story in one page
Mark Tidd, Editor
The local newspaper is dead. Four boys decide to start it up and make the town nervous.
Clarence Budington Kelland · novel
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Mark Tidd, Manufacturer
Clarence Budington Kelland · novel
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Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography
Mark Twain · novel
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Mark Twain's Speeches
Mark Twain · ideas
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Market Harborough, and Inside the Bar
G. J. Whyte-Melville · novel
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Married Life: A Comedy, in Three Acts
John Baldwin Buckstone · play
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Mars Confidential
Howard Browne · short story
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Martha; or, The Fair at Richmond
Friedrich von Flotow · play
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Martian V.F.W.
G. L. Vandenburg · short story
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Marty the Martian
Arnold Marmor · short story
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Mary Jane Married: Tales of a Village Inn
George R. Sims · novel
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Masks and Faces; or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Comedy in Two Acts
Tom Taylor · play
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Master of None
Neil Goble · short story
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Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
Thomas L. Masson · short story
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Mate in two moves
Winston K. Marks · novel
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Matrimonial Openings
W. W. Jacobs · short story
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Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone
Emerson Hough · novel
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Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks
Wilhelm Busch · poetry
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Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters
Richard Penn · manual
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McAllister and His Double
Arthur Cheney Train · short story
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Me, Myself and I
William Tenn · short story