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Gullible’s Travels
Ring Lardner
An exasperated Chicago husband and his status-hungry wife attempt to climb the social ladder in six comic misadventures.
June Moon
Ring Lardner
A lyricist moves to New York City aspiring to make it big on Tin Pan Alley.
English as She Is Spoke
Pedro Carolino
A phrasebook of unintentionally hilarious English.
Right Ho, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves try their hand at matchmaking in upper-class England.
Jeeves Stories
P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of short stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster and the upperclass English life of the early 1900s.
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
A woman disguises herself as a man and becomes entangled in the courtship of two aristocrats.
Short Fiction
Ring Lardner
A collection of short stories by Ring Lardner.
The Young Visiters
Daisy Ashford
A nine-year-old girl’s humorous depiction of high society, exactly as written in her notebook.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
Forced to flee to the Forest of Arden, the daughter of a duke encounters a variety of characters, her banished father, and even finds love.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
This comedy follows four lovers and a thespian who become bewitched by fairies.
All’s Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare
A woman tricks her husband into fulfilling his marriage demands.
Hay Fever
Noël Coward
A well-to-do family cannot be civil to each other in front of their weekend guests.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Oscar Wilde
A witty comedy that subverts the harsh social codes of Victorian England.
The Inspector General
Nikolai Gogol
Corrupt officials in a small Russian town are thrown into disarray by the arrival of an Inspector General from the central government.
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
To help his friend Bassanio woo the beautiful Portia, the Venetian merchant Antonio borrows a large sum from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender.
An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
Over the course of twenty-four hours, a blackmail plot threatens to bring down a member of the British aristocracy.
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
A heavily indebted landowner and her family return to Russia in an attempt to save her estate from being auctioned off.
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
A mother’s secretive past clashes with high society when her son is offered an irresistible position with a charismatic nobleman.
Our American Cousin
Tom Taylor
A rough American from a distant branch of the Trenchard family returns to England and quickly becomes embroiled in the family’s affairs.
The Seagull
Anton Chekhov
A has-been actress, her ambitious playwright son, a male writer, and an aspiring young actress struggle to realize their romantic and artistic aims.
Misalliance
George Bernard Shaw
On a pleasant summer afternoon, a sudden plane crash followed by a would-be assassin interrupt a family’s conversations about marriage.
Fanny’s First Play
George Bernard Shaw
A young woman writes a play to shock her father, in which two respectable families deal with their with disreputable children.
David Harum
Edward Noyes Westcott
An aimless young man leaves the city for a small village to work for a horse-trading country banker.
Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw
A humorous examination of human hypocrisy and war’s stupidity in the midst of the Serbo-Bulgarian war.
A Gentleman of Leisure
P. G. Wodehouse
Jimmy Pitt gets much more than he bargained for when he bets his friends at the Strollers’ Club that he can successfully burgle a house.
Fred Gross Stories
Ring Lardner
A police detective attempts to live the American dream in the Chicago suburbs.
The Crock of Gold
James Stephens
A philosopher sets out to rescue the beautiful Caitilin Ni Murrachu from the god Pan in an adventure that involves leprechauns, Celtic gods, policemen, and philosophical disquisitions both profound and absurd.
The Layton Court Mystery
Anthony Berkeley
Two friends become amateur sleuths when a suicide during a summer retreat leaves too many questions unanswered.
Psmith, Journalist
P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith, visiting New York with Mike on a cricket tour, finds entertainment and trouble for himself in the newspaper business, stirring up trouble with New York’s notorious gangs.
She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith
Two young men visit the countryside: one to find a wife, and the other to avoid one.
The Small Bachelor
P. G. Wodehouse
A struggling artist and his dream girl set off on a series of comedic misadventures.
Short Fiction
P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of P. G. Wodehouse’s short fiction.
Love Among the Chickens
P. G. Wodehouse
Stanley Ukridge ensnares the narrator in another one of his schemes: running a chicken farm in the English countryside.
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
The humorous travelogue of a boating holiday down the Thames taken by three friends and their dog.
Mike
P. G. Wodehouse
A boy’s adventures in public school are filled with cricket, colorful characters, and a great deal of fun at the expense of authoritarian school masters.
Indiscretions of Archie
P. G. Wodehouse
When Englishman Archie Moffam makes a complaint about his room to the owner of the New York hotel, his life is changed forever.
A Damsel in Distress
P. G. Wodehouse
A composer meets a young woman and tracks her down to a country manor, where a case of mistaken identity leads to comedy.
School Stories
P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of Wodehouse’s school stories about the lives and adventures of schoolboys in the early 1900s.
Psmith in the City
P. G. Wodehouse
A young man abandons his dream of playing cricket at Cambridge because of financial trouble and goes to work for a London bank, where he’s joined by an unflappable friend.
A Prefect’s Uncle
P. G. Wodehouse
A boy’s life at boarding school is disrupted by an uncle that he’s never met before.
The Adventures of Sally
P. G. Wodehouse
A young woman comes into an inheritance, loses it all, and finds love along the way.
Nonsense Books
Edward Lear
A collection of literary nonsense in the forms of limericks, songs, and short stories.
My Four Weeks in France
Ring Lardner
A sports columnist and humorist travels to France as a war correspondent during World War I and recounts his experiences on the assignment.
The Way of the World
William Congreve
Two lovers are prevented from marrying due to a previous dalliance.
Mr. Mulliner Stories
P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of short stories featuring the eccentric (and hilarious) Mr. Mulliner, who regales the patrons of the Anglers’ Rest with tales of his colorful and amusing relatives.
Uneasy Money
P. G. Wodehouse
When Lord Dawlish unexpectedly comes into an inheritance, he travels from London to New York to try to give it away.
Ukridge Stories
P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of stories featuring P. G. Wodehouse’s charismatic character Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.
Something New
P. G. Wodehouse
Two young writers experience romance and adventure in Lord Emsworth’s Blandings Castle.
Jack Keefe Stories
Ring Lardner
A boastful, nearly illiterate major league pitcher writes a series of letters home detailing the goings-on in his life and career.
Golf Stories
P. G. Wodehouse
A collection of Wodehouse’s golf stories featuring the Oldest Member.
Leave It to Psmith
P. G. Wodehouse
Psmith inveigles himself into Blandings Castle to help out a friend and to pursue love.
Brewster’s Millions
George Barr McCutcheon
A young man stands to gain a fortune—but only if he loses one first.
The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Despite their best efforts, the rumormongers of 18th-century London are disappointed by their targets.
Kipps
H. G. Wells
An orphan raised by his aunt and uncle struggles as a young man to integrate into upper class society after receiving a substantial inheritance from his grandfather.
Tartuffe
Molière
A father announces his daughter will marry Tartuffe, a sanctimonious fraud and hypocrite.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos
The comic diary of a young woman recounting her escapades and romances in 1920s New York and Europe.
The Four Men
Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc takes a pilgrimage across his beloved home English county of Sussex writing as four distinct personalities, with a wide variety of songs, stories, and digressions.
The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele
A rich young man tries to avoid the marriage his father has arranged.
The Cords of Vanity
James Branch Cabell
An arrogant young author makes his way through a series of love affairs, avoiding every situation that may cause unpleasantness.
Jurgen
James Branch Cabell
Jurgen, a pawnbroker and “monstrous clever fellow,” is sent on a witty and parodic magical journey in search of true love.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
A comedy skewering Victorian high society.
You Never Can Tell
George Bernard Shaw
A family recently returned to England navigates a comedy of errors when they accidentally meet their estranged husband and unknown father.
Manalive
G. K. Chesterton
An eccentric man brings chaos and happiness to a house of litigious lodgers.
The Man of Destiny
George Bernard Shaw
Napoleon engages in a battle of wits to reclaim some stolen letters.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock
A humorous account of life in the fictional small town of Mariposa.
The Apple Cart
George Bernard Shaw
An English king challenges his popular prime minister and cabinet.
Back to Methuselah
George Bernard Shaw
Five linked plays explore human longevity and governance.
Figures of Earth
James Branch Cabell
A young swineherd rises to the rank of Count by following his own thinking and desires.
Man and Superman
George Bernard Shaw
Jack Tanner flees both London and responsibility when he is made guardian of his childhood friend Ann Whitehead.
Getting Married
George Bernard Shaw
On the morning of a young couple’s wedding, concerns about what is to come inspire discussions about the institution of marriage.
Penguin Island
Anatole France
A myopic saint mistakenly baptizes some penguins, ushering in a centuries-spanning satire of French history.
Short Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe
A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Rudolph Erich Raspe
The legendary Baron Munchausen’s tall tales of wonder and adventure.