 | The Diary of a Nobody (Oxford World's Classics) by George Grossmith
Buy new: $8.54 / Used from: $0.01 Lovely affectionate tale of the mundane life of houseproud Mr. Pooter and his bourgeois triumphs and humiliations. Very funny though from 1896, and an influence on most of the rest here.
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 | Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Tor Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy used from: $1.76 The Edwardian pastime of boating on the river Thames, with George and Harris and Montmercy, with comic sequences broken up with philosophical musings. Available on the Gutenberg Project.
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.91 "A HANDBAG?!"
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 | Feast of Stephen by Stephen Leacock
Buy used from: $3.00 Canada's answer to all these pre-war humourists, and well worth getting to know. His parodies of silly contemporary styles of writing alone are priceless.
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 | Life with Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Compendium) by P. G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: $1.80 If the previous items are your sort of thing, then no doubt you already worship P.G. Wodehouse, the Master.
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