Бесплатные книги в жанре «Юмористическая литература»

Джером Клапка Джером (1859–1927) – блестящий британский писатель-юморист, автор множества замечательных сатирических произведений, умевший весело и остроумно поведать публике о разнообразных нюансах частной и общественной жизни англичан всех сословий и возрастов.В состав данной книги вошла больша...

Roughing it De LuxeIrvin S. Cobb Roughing it De Luxe A PILGRIM CANONIZED It is generally conceded that the Grand Cañon of Arizona beggars description. I shall therefore endeavor to refrain from doing so. I realize that this is going to be a considerable contract. Nearly everybody, on taking a fir...

Hero Tales from American HistoryHenry Cabot Lodge Hero Tales from American History Hence it is that the fathers of these men and ours also, and they themselves likewise, being nurtured in all freedom and well born, have shown before all men many and glorious deeds in public and private, deeming i...

Ben's Nugget; Or, A Boy's Search For FortuneJr. Horatio Alger Ben's Nugget; Or, A Boy's Search For Fortune PREFACE "Ben's Nugget" is the concluding volume of the Pacific Series. Though it is complete in itself, and may be read independently, the chief characters introduced will be recognized as o...

Hero TalesJames Baldwin Hero Tales INTRODUCTION In the world's literature there are certain stories which, told ages ago, can never be forgotten. They have within them that which gives pleasure to all intelligent men, women and children. They appeal to the sympathies, the desires, and the admirat...

Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great ExperimentGeorge Gibbs Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment I have considered well his loss of timeAnd how he cannot be a perfect manNot being tried and tutored in the world. —TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA."'Love!' he sneered...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner, read by Royce Pierreson. A tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. Everyone in the tiny village of Moonfleet lives by the sea one way or another, so its no surprise when young John Trenchard gets ...

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdröckhThomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh BOOK I CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more ...

The Diary of a NobodyGeorge Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody INTRODUCTION BY MR. POOTER Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see—because I do not happen to be a ‘Somebody’—why my diary should not be interesting. My o...

A Satire AnthologyVarious A Satire Anthology NOTE Acknowledgment is hereby gratefully made to the publishers of the various poems included in this compilation.Those by Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, John G. Saxe, Edward Rowland Sill, John Hay, Bayard Taylor and Edith Thomas are publ...