Courtship & Comedy

The comic side of romance — flirtation, misunderstanding, and the happy ending, from Austen’s wit to Wilde’s sparkling stagecraft.

Love as the best kind of joke

In this collection

• The Lovely Child
• From the German of Uhland
• Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke
• Tale of the Che-Cha-Ko
• From the Sea
• The Critics
• Tommy and Grizel
• Sunflowers
• Happy Year to My Country in Darkness
• The Story of the Diamond Necklace
• The Night-Jar
• Discovery
• A Guess-Proof Mystery Story
• St. Martin's Lane
• Behind a Mask
• The Cloud
• In Various Roles
• The Kanaka Surf
• The Old Neighbour and the New
• His Immortality
• You Would Come
• Songs for Parents: Sally
• Great Things
• Love before Breakfast
• An Absent Vicar
• Dog Trust
• The Fair with Golden Hair
• Aunt Anne, Volume 1
• The Aristocrats
• The Mating Impulse
• A Waif's Progress
• The Tarbolton Lasses
• Wha is that at my Bower-Door
• For a' That
• Willie Chalmers
• I'M o'Er Young to Marry Yet
• Duncan Davison
• My Love, she's but a Lassie Yet
• Tam Glen
• The Laddie's Dear Sel'
• The Courtship of Miles Standish
• The Man between Two Ages, and his Two Mistresses
• His Royal Nibs
• Radio Razz
• Country Quarters

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