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Books in the Humorous genre:

Far From the Maddening Girls (1904)

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A single young man possessed of a good fortune determines to remain single, until a young woman enters his life and he sees the error of his ways. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Guy Wetmore Carryl
Illustrator(s): Peter Newell

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The Peradventures of Private Pagett (1904)

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Humorous misadventures of a member of His Britannic Majesty’s navy and army. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Major W. P. Drury
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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The Head of Kay’s (1905)

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Having been appointed head boy of Kay’s house against his will, Kennedy soon finds that it is something like taking over the running of Hades while Mephistopheles sat back and watched. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): T. M. R. Whitwell

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King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)

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A satirical defense of the Belgian king’s exploitation of the Congo Free State, notoriously the subject of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. A supplement was added to make the second edition. Read online at archive.org.... View More

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

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Lady Noggs Peeress (1905)

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Lady Felicia Grandison, known to her friends as Noggs, despite her uncle the Prime Minister's attempts to make a lady of her, generally has her own way.

Author(s): Edgar Jepson
Illustrator(s): Lewis Baumer

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The One Hoss Shay with its Companion Poems (1905)

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The wonderful one hoss shay. It ran for a hundred years to a day. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Oliver Wendell Holmes
Illustrator(s): Howard Pyle

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Pigs Is Pigs (1905)

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Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company determines that guinea pigs should pay the same freight as hogs, not pets. The consignee refuses to pay and Mike ends up with a rapidly multiplying stock of guinea pigs.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Will Crawford

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The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906)

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This is a collection of thirty-eight pieces by the iconic American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The stories span the course of his career, from 1865 to 1904. Sixteen are here first collected. They include Saint Joan of Arc. Read online at Hathitru... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Albert Levering
W. T. Smedley
Et al

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Eve’s Diary: Translated from the Original MS (1906)

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This fictional account of life in the Garden of Eden and afterward is not as cynical as Twain’s other writings on the subject. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Lester Ralph

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The Incubator Baby (1906)

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Baby Marjorie triumphs over the committee and her scientific upbringing. Read online at archive.org.

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

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Love Among the Chickens (1906)

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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): H. M. Brock

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Perkins of Portland Perkins the Great (1906)

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Eight episodes in the career of Perkins of Portland, the greatest American promoter of the early twentieth century. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Adrian J. Iorio

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Pigs Is Pigs (1906)

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Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company determines that guinea pigs should pay the same freight as hogs, not pets. The consignee refuses to pay and Mike ends up with a rapidly multiplying stock of guinea pigs. Read online ... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Will Crawford

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1907)

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Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by strange creatures. Read for free online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): Lewis Carroll
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Cautionary Tales for Children: Verses (1907)

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A fourth collection of humorous verses by the English master in the tradition of Struwwelpeter. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Hilaire Belloc
Illustrator(s): Basil T. Blackwood

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The Confessions of a Daddy (1907)

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A hymn to fatherhood, and motherhood. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Fanny Y. Cory

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Crandford; The Cage at Cranford; The Moorland Cottage (1907)

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This volume in The World’s Classics includes an additional story of Cranford.

Author(s): Mrs. Gaskell
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Great American Pie Company (1907)

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Mr. Deacon and Mr. Doolittle are the delivery men for their wives’ pie bakeries. In the great American tradition they get together over a pie and carve up the market between them. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Frederic Dorr Steele

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The Ingoldsby Legends (1907)

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A collection of ghost stories, tales, legends and poems, most with a humorous twist. This edition has additional illustrations. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Ingoldsby
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

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Pictures by Richard Doyle (1907)

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This is a reprint of a collection of pictures from Manners and Customs of Ye Englyshe, The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones and Robinson, and Bird’s Eye Views of Society. It is Volume 6 in the "Humorous Masterpieces" series. Read online at ... View More

Author(s): Richard Doyle
Illustrator(s): Richard Doyle

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