 | Short Stories and Tall Tales (Courage Literary Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy used from: $1.94 When he's not being dark, as in his last years, twain was uproariously funny. Read his essay on "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses."
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 | Most of the Most of S.J. Perelman (Modern Library Humor and Wit) by S.J. Perelman
Buy new: $23.08 / Used from: $3.25 Perelman is so funny you should consider reading him out loud. After all, he wrote many of Groucho Marx's great lines.
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 | The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $9.36 This is by far Wodehouse's best book and features his best characters: Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.
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 | The Complete Saki (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by H. H. Munro
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $7.99 Short comic pieces that are incredibly outrageous. You will find yourself coming back to them again and again.
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 | Troubles (New York Review Books Classics) by J.G. Farrell
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.00 Irish writer J. G. Farrell writes about some English gentlefolk who are like fish out of water at a dilapidated seaside hotel.
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 | Mark Twain : The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It (Library of America) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $9.54 Two of Mark Twain's best in one volume, about his travels across Europe, the Holy Land, and the Old West.
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 | Life at Blandings (OMNIBUS) by P. G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: $4.77 What can you say about an English country gentleman who worships a pig? Quite a lot, actually, and it's all good.
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 | Cold Comfort Farm (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Stella Gibbons
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 "I saw something in the woodshed," and so will we all when we read this short comic classic of English rural life.
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 | The Thurber Carnival (Perennial Classics) by James Thurber
Buy new: $10.54 / Used from: $1.12 An American classic, though at times a bit too edgy for me.
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 | The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Buy used from: $2.25 Who says comedy has to be written in English? The Czech Svejk is a universal figure from whom all military satires have sprung.
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 | Fancies and Goodnights (New York Review Books) by John Collier
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $3.94 Devastating short comic sketches by the author of HIS MONKEY WIFE.
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 | The Best of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.49 The master of the wryly and horrifically comic.
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 | Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Keillor is a natural-born comic storyteller -- and a Scandihoovian to boot!
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 | When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $0.01 In performance or in print, Carlin is tops!
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