Courtship & Comedy: Love as the best kind of joke

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

In this collection

• Substance Versus Shadow
• The Adventurer (Rhymes for the Times)
• Oliver Twist
• Billy's "Square Affair"
• The Law
• To Either
• Answers to Correspondents
• Christmas Eve
• For the Allinson Honor
• Prospector's Special
• Eatin' Crow
• Uncle Vanya
• The Faded Face
• The Pobble who has no Toes
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Blithedale Romance
• The Legend of the Lily
• Moby Dick
• We Two
• England to the Sea
• The V. C
• Illusion
• Soldier an' Salor Too
• The Flowering Orchard
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