Humorous category: 20629 books

These are some of Yates’ early short stories featuring the comic Pleydell clan, and on publication proved just a successful and popular as Berry and Co had been. They describe the chaotic journey of the young, well-to-do heroes as they cavort across France, and helped to establish Yates’ reputation as a master of humorous fiction.

Illustrated by Arthur William Brown. A humorous novel which gently satirizes first love, in the person of a callow 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Seventeen takes place in a small city in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States. It was published as sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine...

Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer. Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories. In 1889,...

As touching as it is humorous, The Garden of Eden is a parable for our time with a powerful and ultimately redemptive ending that speaks to oft underappreciated virtues such as loyalty (sticking with those you love even when they screw up royally), tolerance, and forgiveness. It's also about the values...

Literary young adult collection of humorous short fiction in which adolescent heroes conquer such diabolical foes as the the Robosaurus, a sadistic teacher, a mysterious rusted can, and a preternatural kickball villain.

“The History of England” is a 1791 novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was just fifteen years old (it includes her original spelling quirks), it is a humorous burlesque on the popular history books contemporarily used in school. Within it, Austen comically mimics the style of...

A humorous tale about gossip and friendship, great for kids, too.

A retired middle-aged gentleman and his wife take a long walk, arm-in-arm, many miles, up hills, across fields, with a laden knapsack and a heavy picnic basket, and yet they are completely at ease because of the gentleman's invention, a negative gravity device, which they carry to lighten their weight....

Here is an offbeat humorous novel that describes a young man learning about the real world as a Professional Men's Fashion Consultant (read Retail Sales Clerk) in an upscale haberdashery. His landlady fights to make him a staunch anti-communist. His co-workers try to prove that the more things...

Lives of Thank you Jesus characters are intertwined in this humorous tale of happenings in the world of make-believe, both live and fictional characters travel together...live and love together. Mario Burko, the main fictional character is from the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois....

A humorous tale of mystery, espionage, and romance.

Do you ever think that there just aren't enough poetry books out there that focus on all the things in life that annoy you? Is there simply not enough material on the market that puts your complaints and pet peeves into rhyming verses to mock them? Well, look no further because here it is! You're...

This humorous romp of a novel introduces readers to one Lalage Beresford, one of the most delightful female characters of early twentieth-century literature. Spirited and independent, Lalage forces herself into every firestorm and controversy she can, and ultimately finds herself a key figure in a closely watched campaign for Parliament.

This book is presented as a Field Guide for observing God in the humorous narrative nonfiction genre. The narrator, Albert Steinberger, is an experienced author of Field Guides for bird watching and train spotting and here turns his expertise to the popular pastime of God observation. The narrator...