Found 32,573 results for "Humorous Fiction"
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
by Astrid Lindgren
Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house.
by William Makepeace Thackeray
WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...
by Mark Twain
"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.
by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.
by Louisa May Alcott
"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
by J. K. Rowling
Ce n’était pas la première fois qu’une dispute éclatait au petit déjeuner dans la maison du 4, Privet Drive. Mr Vernon D...
by Truman Capote
problems. However, the last seven years have been years of droughtless beneficence.
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
by Roald Dahl
THE LAST TIME WE SAW CHARLIE, he was riding high above his home town in the Great Glass Elevator.
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
by Roald Dahl
My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.
by Sinclair Lewis
THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...
by Roald Dahl
Ce Vieux monsieur et cette vieille dame sont les parents de Mr. Bucket.
by Franz Kafka
As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had sed...
by José Rizal
Towards the end of October, Don Santiago de los Santos, popularly known as Capitan Tiago, was hosting a dinner which, in...
by Agatha Christie
It was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.