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Books in the Humorous genre:

A Damsel in Distress (2003)

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

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Fuzzy Fuzzy Fuzzy! (2003)

Pat the Cow.

Author(s): Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s): Sandra Boynton

A Gentleman of Leisure (2003)

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): Andrzej Klimwoski

Hot Water (2003)

A wealthy American woman who wants a ‘dry’ senator to get her husband appointed ambassador to France is in possession of a letter the senator wrote to his bootlegger, a gang of jewelry thieves are interested in the woman’s diamonds,... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Jimmy’s Boa and the Bungee Jump Slam Dunk (2003)

Miss Peachtree’s school of dance gets mixed up with basketball practice. Throw in Jimmy’s boa and you have a real mess! Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Trinka Hakes Noble
Illustrator(s): Steven Kellogg

Leave it to Psmith (2003)

Psmith leaves his teaching job and goes to Blandings Castle disguised as a Canadian minor poet to help Mike Jackson by stealing Lady Constance’s diamond necklace, and steals himself a wife. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Li’l Abner The Frazetta Years Volume 1 1954-1955 (2003)

This series reprints in full color the Sunday Li’l Abner continuity, which was different from the daily strips. Carried by over 900 newspapers, Li’l Abner was the most popular strip in America for decades.

Li’l Abner The Frazetta Years Volume 2 1956-1957 (2003)

This series reprints in full color the Sunday Li’l Abner continuity, which was different from the daily strips. Carried by over 900 newspapers, Li’l Abner was the most popular strip in America for decades. This is the second volume of Sun... View More

Li’l Abner The Frazetta Years Volume 3 1958-1959 (2003)

This series reprints in full color the Sunday Li’l Abner continuity, which was different from the daily strips. Carried by over 900 newspapers, Li’l Abner was the most popular strip in America for decades. This is the third volume of Sund... View More

Mulliner Nights (2003)

A collection of short stories narrated by Mr. Mulliner. Wodehouse seems to have been thinking much on the comedic possibilities of the higher clergy at this time. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Psmith in the City (2003)

Mike and Psmith go into the New Asiatic Bank. Mike gets called up to play cricket for his county and Psmith quits the bank as well to watch him. They both go up to Cambridge as the story ends.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Snuggle Puppy! (2003)

A little love song.

Author(s): Sandra Boynton
Illustrator(s): Sandra Boynton

Summer Lightning (2003)

Galahad Threepwood is ensconced at Blandings Castle working on his memoirs while around him Ronnie Fish is stealing the Empress and various affairs of the heart are going awry.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Summer Moonshine (2003)

Joe wants to marry Jane and with the success of his play about his nasty stepmother sees his way clear, then the stepmother (a mittel european Princess) has the play pulled and Joe is left looking for a fairy godfather. Read online at archive.org.&nb... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Thank You, Jeeves (2003)

It all begins when Bertie Wooster decides to take up the banjolele seriously and Jeeves objects, leading to a parting of the ways, but they meet again in the chaos that is Chuffnell Regis, and after the banjolele is destroyed in an act of arson by Be... View More

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

Ukridge (2003)

A collection of ten short stories about Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, that self absorbed promoter of the impossible. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

The Camel’s Lament (2004)

A comic poem in which the camel bewails its lot.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Charles E. Carryl
Illustrator(s): Charles Santore

Cocktail Time (2004)

When Pongo’s Uncle Fred knocks off Sir Raymond ‘Beefy’ Bastable’s top hat with a Brazil nut he starts something. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

The Complete Peanuts 1950 to 1952 (2004)

This is the first volume in a reprinting of the complete Charles Schulz comic strip.

Author(s): Charles M. Schulz
Illustrator(s): Charles M. Schulz

Half a Pig (2004)

Esmeralda the pig is jointly owned by kindly Mrs. Harbottle and her nasty ex-husband Mr. Harbottle who wants to turn Esmeralda into sausages.

Author(s): Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s): Jessica Ahlberg

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