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Books in the Humorous genre:

Plantation Pageants (1899)

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Fourteen tales of plantation life after the Civil War. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Joel Chandler Harris
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Don Quixote of La Mancha (1900)

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The romance-befuddled Hidalgo mounts his Rozinante and sets out to battle villains and right wrongs. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Edward Abbott Parry
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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English as She Is Taught (1900)

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This is a reprint of a review of English as She Is Taught by Caroline B. Le Row, first published in 1887. Twain’s work first appeared in England in 1887. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): None

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Gulliver’s Travels (1900)

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A satirical look at human society through the lens of midgets, giants and horses. Read for free online at Google Books.... View More

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

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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1900)

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This is Volume XXII of the Works. It includes sixteen essays, one of which is a biographical sketch by the author’s nephew. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Samuel Erasmus Moffett
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): W. H. W. Bicknell
Peter Newell
Photographs
C. D. Weldon

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The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses (1900)

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A collection of nonsense verse. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Edward Lear
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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Knickerbocker’s History of New York (1900)

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A satirical look at the early history of the metropolis. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Washington Irving
Illustrator(s): Maxfield Parrish

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Nonsense Songs (1900)

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This omnibus contains The Pelican Chorus and Other Verses and The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Edward Lear
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1901)

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Alice finds her way to Wonderland down a rabbit hole and meets many queer characters there. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell
Robert Murray Wright

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A Masque of Days (1901)

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An anthropomorphized day come to a grand party for the new year. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Charles Lamb
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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The Arkansaw Bear (1902)

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Bosephus is a recent runaway. He meets Horatio, a talking, fiddle-playing bear in a patch of Arkansas woods. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Albert Bigelow Paine
Illustrator(s): Frank Ver Beck

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A Double Barrelled Detective Story (1902)

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A burlesque on the Sherlock Holmes craze. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock

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Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures and Other Stories and Essays (1902)

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A collection of comic sketches as originally published in Punch. The image above is from the Oxford World’s Classics edition. Read for free online HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): Douglas Jerrold
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle
Charles Keene
John Leech

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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1902)

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Alice returns to Wonderland by way of the looking glass over the mantle and meets many queer people, including the Walrus and the Carpenter. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell

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The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems (1903)

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Includes The Hunting of the Snark and poems from Rhyme? and Reason?, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Sylvie and Bruno. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell
Robert Murray Wright

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Johnny Crow’s Garden: A Picture Book (1903)

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A nonsense book. Read for free online at Internet Archive and at HathiTrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Leslie Brooke
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

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A Prefect’s Uncle (1903)

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When Alan Gethryn’s uncle joins his house as a junior, embarrassing situations arise for the head of Leicester’s house. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): R. Noel Pocock

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Tales of St. Austin’s (1903)

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A dozen ‘public school’ stories set at St. Austin’s. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): R. Noel Pocock
E. F. Skinner
T. M. R. Whitwell

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Tales of St. Austin’s (1903)

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A dozen ‘public school’ stories set at St. Austin’s. Read online at gutenberg.org.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): R. Noel Pocock
E. F. Skinner
T. M. R. Whitwell

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Extracts from Adam’s Diary Translated from the Original MS (1904)

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A satirical look at the Garden of Eden. This version was originally printed in a miscellany The Niagara Book, published for distribution at the 1893 Buffalo, New York World’s Fair and contains references to Niagara Falls. The original version w... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): F. Strothmann

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