Great humorous stories

Ronnie Corbett introduces

Pages: 792
Published: 1987
Language: English

This collection brings together a delightful array of humorous stories from celebrated authors like P.G. Wodehouse, Mark Twain, and Oscar Wilde. Readers will find themselves chuckling through tales of quirky characters, unexpected predicaments, and witty observations on life. From classic comedic sketches to more contemporary takes on the absurd, this anthology offers a rich tapestry of laughter.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Funny Lighthearted Whimsical

Classics Humor

Authors

Frederic Raphael

H. F. Ellis

Mark Twain

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a prolific American author and humorist. Twain is best known for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (pronounced /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be widely read. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodeh...

Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner was a sharp-witted American humorist whose work is collected in A Subtreasury of American Humor. He's known for his satirical take on everyday life and the foibles of human nature.