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Humorous Genre
Books in the Humorous genre:
Tales from Shakespeare (1923)
Seventeen favorite plays by the Bard of Avon.
Author(s):
Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Bill the Conqueror (1924)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Bill the Conqueror (1924)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Golf Without Tears (1924)
Ten short stories involving golf narrated by the Oldest Member.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Jibby Jones and the Alligator: The Story of the Young Alligator-Hunters of the Upper Mississippi Valley (1924)
Further adventures of Jibby Jones and his friends on the Mississippi River based on the author’s boyhood in Muscatine, Iowa.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Arthur G. Dorr
The Lady Noggs Assists (1924)
Further adventures of Lady Felicia Grandison, Noggs to her friends.
Author(s):
Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Leave it to Psmith (1924)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
Leave it to Psmith (1924)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Peterkin Papers (1924)
A collection of nonsense stories about the family of Peterkins who rely on the Lady from Philadelphia to extricate them from their troubles.
Author(s):
Lucretia P. Hale
Illustrator(s):
Harold M. Brett
Ukridge (1924)
A collection of ten short stories about Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, that self absorbed promoter of the impossible.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1925)
This is a complete translation of the adventures of the mischievous wooden puppet, with the illustrations used in the most popular Italian edition. It was originally published in 1911. It was reprinted in 1969.
Author(s):
Carlo Collodi
Illustrator(s):
Attilio Mussino
Carry On, Jeeves! (1925)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Many Happy Returns of the Day! (1925)
Everybody has a birthday - and that's worth celebrating.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Monkey that Would not Kill (1925)
Two stories about Tricky or Gum, a mischievous monkey who could not be killed --hanged, drowned, blown up -- but not killed.
Author(s):
Henry Drummond
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Sam in the Suburbs (1925)
Sam Shotter falls in love with a picture in an English weekly magazine tacked up on the wall of a log cabin in Canada. When he finds himself living next door to her in Valley Fields he doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
May Wilson Preston
Sam the Sudden (1925)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Frank Marston
The Strack Platform Readings (1925)
A collection of humorous stories suitable for recitation.
Author(s):
Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Where the Blue Begins (1925)
A satire on the author George Gissing in which all the parts are played by dogs. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Christopher Morley
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Emma (1926)
Author(s):
Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet (1926)
This is a facsimile of a nonsense alphabet originally written in 1849. Read for free online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Edward Lear
Illustrator(s):
Edward Lear