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Humorous Genre
Books in the Humorous genre:
Cranford (1853)
Author(s):
Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s):
None
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
John Tenniel
The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1878)
Author(s):
William Cowper
Illustrator(s):
Randolph Caldecott
The Peterkin Papers (1880)
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
Peck’s Bad Boy and His Pa (1883)
Author(s):
George W. Peck
Illustrator(s):
True W. Williams
The Last of the Peterkins with Others of Their Kin (1886)
In these further adventures of a muddleheaded family, the Lady from Philadelphia again comes to their aid.
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Anonymous
The Admiral’s Caravan (1892)
A young girl named Dorothy takes a journey with three wooden statues who come alive on Christmas Eve. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s):
Reginald Birch
Mr. Midshipman Easy (1895)
A young man, who seems very like a fool, is sent to sea and makes good.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (1897)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Thomson
Emma (1898)
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, fancies her self a match-maker, but after her first effort, she can’t seem to do anything right.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
Fables for the Frivolous (1898)
These humorous verse renderings of the familiar Aesop fables are ideal for memorization. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
Mansfield Park (1898)
Sir Thomas Bertram considers he is bestowing a great favor on Fanny Price when he takes her into his home, but in the end finds himself in her debt.
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
C. E. Brock
The Arkansaw Bear (1902)
Author(s):
Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s):
Frank Ver Beck
The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems (1903)
Author(s):
Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s):
Peter Newell
Robert Murray Wright
The Prodigious Hickey (1909)
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
Henry Raleigh
Frederic Dorr Steele
The Tennessee Shad (1911)
The Prodigious Hickey has moved on but life continues at The Lawrenceville School. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s):
F. R. Gruger
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912)
Author(s):
Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s):
Cyrus Cuneo
The Terrible Twins (1913)
A pair of twins, brother and sister, terrorize the community of Little Deeping, to say nothing of the cats. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Hanson Booth
Penrod (1914)
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Gordon Grant
Penrod and Sam (1916)
Author(s):
Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s):
Worth Brehm