Classic Comedy & Satire
Three men, a boat, and a dog rowing up the Thames. Don Quixote tilting at windmills. Candide surveying the best of all possible worlds. Wilde puncturing Victorian manners with perfect timing. The great comic novels and satires — click-to-explain for the period jokes and vanished social references, so punchlines actually land two centuries later.
139 books
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Emma by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Jeeves Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Candide by Voltaire
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Manalive by G. K. Chesterton
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Small Bachelor by P. G. Wodehouse
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Futility by William Gerhardie
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Don Juan by Lord Byron
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
Roughing It by Mark Twain
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Jack Keefe Stories by Ring Lardner
Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
Tartuffe by Molière
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
Mr. Mulliner Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse
All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
School Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Something New by P. G. Wodehouse
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
The Absolute at Large by Karel Čapek
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
Leave It to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse
The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving
Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse
The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
The Indiscreet Jewels by Denis Diderot
Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw
Golf Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells
The Conscious Lovers by Richard Steele
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. Wodehouse
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
Psmith, Journalist by P. G. Wodehouse
Ukridge Stories by P. G. Wodehouse
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
The White Feather by P. G. Wodehouse
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
Mike by P. G. Wodehouse
Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Kipps by H. G. Wells
A Prefect’s Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith in the City by P. G. Wodehouse
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Jurgen by James Branch Cabell
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc
A Gentleman of Leisure by P. G. Wodehouse
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton
The Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
The Mule-Bone by Langston Hughes
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw
The Little Nugget by P. G. Wodehouse
Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse
Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse
You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw
Short Plays by George Bernard Shaw
Short Plays by J. M. Synge
Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley
The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge
The Coming of Bill by P. G. Wodehouse
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley
Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw
The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Just William by Richmal Crompton
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
Candida by George Bernard Shaw
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah
The Way of the World by William Congreve
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
The Well of the Saints by J. M. Synge
The Head of Kay’s by P. G. Wodehouse
The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford
Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant
Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo
The Pothunters by P. G. Wodehouse
Penguin Island by Anatole France
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
Brewster’s Millions by George Barr McCutcheon
The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Pastors and Masters by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage
Hudibras by Samuel Butler
Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley
Captain Jinks, Hero by Ernest Howard Crosby
The Red Room by August Strindberg
David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott
Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw
The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol
