The Comic Novel: Long-form laughter

The novel as comic machine — Wodehouse’s Jeeves, Jerome’s boating trip, and the books written to keep you grinning for three hundred pages.

In this collection

• Her Majesty Has Been Pleased
• Songs of Angus: THE HEID HORSEMAN
• The Best Little Table
• The Case of the Lever Key
• Mcintyre has a few Rows
• An Unmerry Christmas
• Fear
• The Palace and the Hut
• The Education of a Heathen
• The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
• Ode to the Dictionary
• The Story of a Famous Old Jewish Firm. (1866.)
• Before Egypt
• A Marked Man
• The Alternative to Barrabas
• Good Humour
• Clever Class Poem
• Herland
• The Gully of Bluemansdyke
• In the same Boat (1911)
• All collections