The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders Famous for their Misdeeds and Serving in a book of poetry on the Goops. The poems describe some significant ways unthoughtful or unkind child could offend polite society and often offering the hope that the listener would never behave that way.

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John Kendrick Bangs was an American author and satirist. This is another book of humorous stories, again he shares the quick-witted thoughts of the Idiot.

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Insanely humorous geography that will have you laughing.

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A wickedly funny 1911 satire on undergraduate life in Edwardian Oxford in which the entire student body of Oxford university including the young, handsome aristocrat the Duke of Dorset falls hopelessly in love with Zuleika who is visiting her grandfather, the warden of Judas college, and ultimately commit mass suicide at the end of 'Eights Week'.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.”

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Written by Ambrose Bierce, satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behavior. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of humor and his cynical outlook on life color a collection of dictionary-like definitions.

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This 1921 short story was made into a major motion picture Benjamin Button, born as an old man much to the dismay and chagrin of his father and family doctor, ages backwards until he leaves this world as a newborn.

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature.

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A small collection of timeless and humorous fairy tales.

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A short, humorous guide of what not to do in your first year of college.

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Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales') one evening in a car drawn by storks. The matron of the family, a thorough snob, is crowned Queen of the country by mistake. She is quick to accept her new position and is determined to introduce British social niceties in her realm.

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A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter and the story was edited by Dickens, who also wrote the first and last chapters with Wilkie Collins. The story of an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house opposite her own, and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within.

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A collection of amusing essays satirizing serious consideration of topics including natural history, social etiquette, or indeed, civilized behavior.

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Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths of their detestation. Others of its denizens believe the ultimate exercise and product of the human mind ought to be chaos.

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A funny collection of poems about bad children.

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F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pieces for Punch and humorous novels. Mr. Punch's Model Music Hall is a collection of humorous pieces written for Punch, divided into songs and dramas. In his usual fashion, Mr. Anstey captured the tone of his times and then exaggerated whatever was already absurd to entertain and give pointed commentary at the same time.

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The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville - blood-stains, clanking chains and all. However, these modern Americans will have no truck with ghostly goings-on, and set out to beat the specter at his own game.

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This work the author claims is indeed a true story of how he happened to be married seven times to seven different women and the rollicking, hilarious events that led (or stumbled) to the marriages and the ah--disassembling/failing/failures of each said marriage which happened oftentimes to land him in prison.

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These short comic parodies of five well-known tragedies by Henrik Ibsen originally appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine.

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Gelett Burgess produced this second book on the Goops with entertaining cartoons and caricatures of misbehaving children. The poems describe many different breaches of tact and good manners.

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Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor.

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This a humorous account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers. The jokes seem fresh and witty even today.

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This humorous story by the editor of Puck magazine describes how the Idiot sets out to improve the lot of civilized man through his inventions - the lot of barbarian man already being well tended to by missionaries and other do-gooders

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Even in a house of odd characters, a fellow can have his say. The Idiot may say the wrong things at meals, but he's smart to live where he can speak his mind. A humorous collection of breakfast chats at a gentleman's boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers.

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The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. The Idiot may say the wrong things at meals, but he's smart to live where he can speak his mind. A humorous collection of breakfast chats at a gentleman's boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. This is the first of John Kendrick Bang’s “Idiot” books.

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Civilization, Immortality, the Death Penalty, these are just a few of the essays enclosed in this collection, A Cynic Looks At Life. Written by Ambrose Bierce, these essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life.

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The stories were collected directly from the African-American oral storytelling. Remus' stories featured a trickster hero called Br'er Rabbit (Brother Rabbit), who used his wits against adversity, though his efforts did not always succeed.

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This is a collection of six humorous short stories, each of them illustrating that even a marriage that looks perfect from the outside can be sabotaged quite easily by the two people involved.

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