Found 14,301 results for "Fiction, humorous, general"
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
by Douglas Adams
The Story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.
The Colour of Magic
by Terry Pratchett
If I had a penny for every time someone asked me where I got the idea of the Discworld, I'd have—hang on a moment—£4.67.
Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.
Evelina
by Fanny Burney, Frances Burney
CAN any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intellige...
Metamorphoses
by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington
What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...
Satyricon
by Petronius
IT has been so long since I promised you the story of my adventures, that I have decided to make good my word to-day; an...
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding, Helen Fielding
The last thing on earth I feel physically, emotionally or mentally equipped to do is drive to Una and Geoffrey Alconbury...
Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
'THAT nigger going down the street,'said Dr Hasselbacher standing in the Wonder Bar, 'he reminds me of you, Mr Wormold.'
The History of Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
AN author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who...
The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with [Egeon] the Merchant of Syracusa, Jailer, and other Attendants.
Ubik
by Philip K. Dick
At three-thirty A.M. on the night of June 5, 1992, the top telepath in the Sol System fell off the map in the offices of...
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my...
The Confidence Man
by Herman Melville
AT sunrise on a first of April,* there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca,* a man in creamcolours, a...
