Comic Masters

The great humorists of the comic novel and sketch — Wodehouse, Jerome, Leacock, and Twain, who proved that being funny is the hardest art.

The writers who set out to make you laugh

In this collection

• A Woman Is Only a Woman
• The Homestead Westward in the Blue Mountains
• The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
• Our Biggest Fish
• A Curious Pleasure Excursion
• Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
• Corporal Punishment
• The Vision of Judgement
• Two Ladies
• Epigrams: Oh, Castlereagh!
• Psmith in the City
• The Trial of Eureka the Kitten
• Sredni Vashtar
• A Word to the Unwise
• The Meanness of Rosy
• May Fair
• Mulga Bill's Bicycle
• Not so Much a Tam Fool
• The Cunnin' Little Thing
• The Politeness of Princes
• A Shot in the Dark
• Divots
• Life on the Mississippi, Part 2
• And Many a Stormy Wind Shall Blow
• Card of Thanks to the Press
• Accompanied on the Flute
• Miss Buffum's New Boarder
• Here, Perfect to a Wish
• The Use of Fools
• Down Around the River. (down Around the River Poems)
• His Client's Case
• Lucia in London
• The Brigadier in England
• The Rival Nightcaps

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