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Books in the Humorous genre:

The Cheerful Smugglers (1908)

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Tom and Laura decide to charge themselves a tariff on everything they buy, to build up Bobbert's college fund. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

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The Globe By the Way Book (1908)

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Early newpaper columns by the master.

Author(s): Herbert Westbrook
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): W. K. Haselden

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The Story of Little Black Sambo (1908)

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This Volume II from Reilly & Lee's 'The Children's Own Books' series includes Little Black Sambo and The Story of Topsy. Read online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Helen Bannerman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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That Pup (1908)

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Murchison has a dog he wants to get rid of. The true story of Fluff, ‘that pup of Murchison’s.’ Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): F. Strothmann

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Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1909)

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A satirical look at the afterlife. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Albert Levering

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Gulliver’s Travels (1909)

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This edition of Dean Swift’s satirical survey of human society has more colored illustrations. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Love Among the Chickens; A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)

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Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Armand Both

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Mike Flannery on Duty and Off (1909)

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Three further adventures of the literal-minded manager of the Westcote express office. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Gustavus C. Widney

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Mr. Punch’s Pageant (1909)

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This is the catalog to an exhibition celebrating the London Charivari. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
Et al

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The Prodigious Hickey (1909)

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The first of the boarding school stories set at Lawrenceville in the era after the end of caning, when “between masters and students there was an armed and exceedingly wary neutrality.” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston
Henry Raleigh
Frederic Dorr Steele

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An Experiment in Gyro-Hats (1910)

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In which a new and original top hat helps the course of true love to run smooth. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Albert Levering

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A Gentleman of Leisure (1910)

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A wealthy New York batchelor falls in love on an Atlantic crossing. While burgling a house to fulfill a bet, he meets the girl again. A year later their paths cross in England and he proposes, but as P.G. Wodehouse is in charge, the course of true lo... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Humming Bird (1910)

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A collection of stories, mainly about baseball. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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The Intrusion of Jimmy (1910)

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A wealthy New York batchelor falls in love on an Atlantic crossing. While burgling a house to fulfill a bet, he meets the girl again. A year later their paths cross in England and he proposes, but as P.G. Wodehouse is in charge, the course of true lo... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): None

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Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1910)

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This was the author’s first book of humorous sketches -- it starts right off with ‘My Financial Career’ -- one of his most often-anthologized pieces. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): None

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The Truth About Old King Cole and Other Very Natural Histories (1910)

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A collection of verse, not quite nonsensical.

Author(s): George F. Hill
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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The Water Goats and Other Troubles (1910)

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Three stories including ‘The Water Goats,’ ‘Mr. Billing’s Pockets,’ and ‘Our First Burglar.’ Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Harrison Cady
Irma Dérèmeaux
Gustavus C. Widney

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The Adventures of a Suburbanite (1911)

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A move to the country allows the narrator to garden to his heart's content -- and more. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): A. B. Phelan

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Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches (1911)

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This was a significantly enlarged edition with fourteen new sketches. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): None

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Nonsense Novels (1911)

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A collection of novelistic parodies. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): None

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