31 volumes
Comedy & Satire
The century laughing at itself.
Satire keeps better than almost anything else in literature, because the vanities it goes after have not changed: the self-important clerk, the improving pamphlet, the man entirely certain he is the hero of the story. These books are still funny, which is the hard part.
The volumes 31 on this shelf
The catalog
- I The Adventures of Sally P. G. Wodehouse
- II Kent Knowles Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- III The Professional Aunt Mary C. E. Wemyss
- IV Parnassus on Wheels Christopher Morley
- V When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day
- VI The Landloper Holman Day
- VII In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley and Bart Haley
- VIII Love Among the Chickens P. G. Wodehouse
- IX Indiscretions of Archie P. G. Wodehouse
- X On Our Selection Steele Rudd
- XI Kilo Ellis Parker Butler
- XII The Enchanted Typewriter John Kendrick Bangs
- XIII The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- XIV The Fatal Boots William Makepeace Thackeray
- XV The Woman-Haters Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- XVI His Own People Booth Tarkington
- XVII The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- XVIII All Roads Lead to Calvary Jerome K. Jerome
- XIX A Damsel in Distress P. G. Wodehouse
- XX Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green Jerome K. Jerome
- XXI Rudder Grange Frank R. Stockton
- XXII Malvina of Brittany Jerome K. Jerome
- XXIII Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm
- XXIV Count Bunker J. Storer Clouston
- XXV The Voice of the City O. Henry
- XXVI Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley
- XXVII The Dolly Dialogues Anthony Hope
- XXVIII The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
- XXIX Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- XXX Baby Mine Margaret Mayo
- XXXI Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki