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  30 Humorous Masterpieces you...

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  This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names
  
  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions [Edwin Abbott Abbott]
  Lady Susan [Jane Austen]
  R. Holmes & Co. [John Kendrick Bangs]
  Mrs. Raffles [John Kendrick Bangs]
  The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr]
  Love Insurance [Earl Derr Biggers]
  The Mirror of Kong Ho [Ernest Bramah Smith]
  The Ghost-Extinguisher [Frank Gelett Burgess]
  Erewhon, or Over The Range [Samuel Butler]
  Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice [James Branch Cabell]
  Sylvie and Bruno [Lewis Carroll]
  The Napoleon of Notting Hill [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
  The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton [Wardon Allan Curtis]
  Our Mutual Friend [Charles Dickens]
  Brother Jacob [George Eliot]
  Cheerful—By Request [Edna Ferber]
  Cabbages and Kings [O. Henry]
  Crome Yellow [Aldous Huxley]
  All Roads Lead to Calvary [Jerome Klapka Jerome]
  Babbitt [Sinclair Lewis]
  Parnassus On Wheels [Christopher Morley]
  Beasts and Super-Beasts [Saki]
  A Tale of Negative Gravity [Frank R. Stockton]
  Gulliver's Travels [Jonathan Swift]
  Botchan [Natsume Sōseki]
  A Voyage to the Moon [George Tucker]
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Mark Twain]
  The Wheels of Chance [H. G. Wells]
  The Canterville Ghost [Oscar Wilde]
  My Man Jeeves [P. G. Wodehouse]

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