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Books in the Humorous genre:

Something New (1915)

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In this, the first of the Castle Blandings saga, Lord Emsworth casually pockets a valuable scarab belonging one of his guests. Two thieves are brought in and Freddie Threepwood loses his fiancee before the happy ending. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day (1916)

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A collection of humorous essays and stories by the Canadian author. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): no first name M.B.A.

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Penrod and Sam (1916)

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Further adventures of Penrod Schofield and his friend Sam Williams, culminating in the dance party at Amy Rennsdale’s -- “Must ‘a’ got your bumpus!” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Worth Brehm

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Seventeen (1916)

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A true classic of American humor. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Arthur William Brown

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Uneasy Money (1916)

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Bill Dawlish is grateful to the eccentric American millionaire who leaves him his fortune, but does not want to disinherit his bee-keeping niece and goes to America to meet her. The British edition was cut considerably. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Clarence F. Underwood

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Piccadilly Jim (1917)

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Jimmy Crocker’s father has married into money and he gets too large an allowance for his own good. Fortunately Ann Chester arrives from America and takes him in hand. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

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Uneasy Money (1917)

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Bill Dawlish is grateful to the eccentric American millionaire who leaves him his fortune, but does not want to disinherit his bee-keeping niece and goes to America to meet her. The British edition was cut considerably. Read online at archive.org.&nb... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Clarence F. Underwood
Unknown

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Frenzied Fiction (1918)

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Essays and stories by the Canadian humorist. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Piccadilly Jim (1918)

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Jimmy Crocker’s father has married into money and he gets too large an allowance for his own good. Fortunately Ann Chester arrives from America and takes him in hand. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston

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A Damsel in Distress (1919)

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When American composer George Bevan falls in love with a young Englishwoman who takes refuge in his taxi, he loses no time in tracking her to her ancestral home.

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

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A Damsel in Distress (1919)

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When American composer George Bevan falls in love with a young Englishwoman who takes refuge in his taxi, he loses no time in tracking her to her ancestral home. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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Goat-Feathers (1919)

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Our popular author urges us to give up collecting goat -feathers, distractions from our real calling. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): no first name Dennis

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My Man Jeeves (1919)

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A collection of short stories, four about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Some of the others were later re-written as Bertie and Jeeves stories. These all first appeared in The Strand, some were published in The Saturday Evening Post. Not published in Ame... View More

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

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Their Mutual Child (1919)

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The story of Ruth and Kirk and their offspring Bill and how they overcame riches and a particularly poisonous busybody Aunt to find happiness. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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The Coming of Bill (1920)

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The story of Ruth and Kirk and their offspring Bill and how they overcame riches and a particularly poisonous busybody Aunt to find happiness. Read online at Archive.org. Or at Hathitrust.... View More

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

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The Little Warrior (1920)

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Jill loses her money and her fiance, goes to America, makes some money, invests it in a play that fails, Wally Mason, who has loved her since she was a child, fixes it and she has a successful play and a husband. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

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

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Millingham’s Cat-Fooler (1920)

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Brownson and Millingham share the latter's garden hose - when the cat isn't using it. Read online.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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“Queen Lucia” (1920)

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Mrs. Emmeline “Lucia” Lucas is the social leader of Riseholme, a quaint Tudor village. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): E. F. Benson
Illustrator(s): None

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Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels (1920)

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A second collection of parodies of contemporary fiction. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Stephen Leacock
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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Gulliver’s Travels (1921)

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Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked in various strange countries, including those of the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians and Houyhnhnms. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

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