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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.

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The volumes 31 on this shelf
The catalog
  1. I The Adventures of Sally P. G. Wodehouse
  2. II Kent Knowles Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  3. III The Professional Aunt Mary C. E. Wemyss
  4. IV Parnassus on Wheels Christopher Morley
  5. V When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day
  6. VI The Landloper Holman Day
  7. VII In the Sweet Dry and Dry Christopher Morley and Bart Haley
  8. VIII Love Among the Chickens P. G. Wodehouse
  9. IX Indiscretions of Archie P. G. Wodehouse
  10. X On Our Selection Steele Rudd
  11. XI Kilo Ellis Parker Butler
  12. XII The Enchanted Typewriter John Kendrick Bangs
  13. XIII The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  14. XIV The Fatal Boots William Makepeace Thackeray
  15. XV The Woman-Haters Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  16. XVI His Own People Booth Tarkington
  17. XVII The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  18. XVIII All Roads Lead to Calvary Jerome K. Jerome
  19. XIX A Damsel in Distress P. G. Wodehouse
  20. XX Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green Jerome K. Jerome
  21. XXI Rudder Grange Frank R. Stockton
  22. XXII Malvina of Brittany Jerome K. Jerome
  23. XXIII Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm
  24. XXIV Count Bunker J. Storer Clouston
  25. XXV The Voice of the City O. Henry
  26. XXVI Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley
  27. XXVII The Dolly Dialogues Anthony Hope
  28. XXVIII The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
  29. XXIX Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln
  30. XXX Baby Mine Margaret Mayo
  31. XXXI Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki