Catalog
Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
A Comedy of Shirking
Summary
An arrogant young author makes his way through a series of love affairs, avoiding every situation that may cause unpleasantness.
Written by
James Branch Cabell
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
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.
Written by
P. G. Wodehouse
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Farrago
Summary
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.
Written by
Hilaire Belloc
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Spirituality · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A boy’s life at boarding school is disrupted by an uncle that he’s never met before.
Written by
P. G. Wodehouse
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Two young men visit the countryside: one to find a wife, and the other to avoid one.
Written by
Oliver Goldsmith
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Drama
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of Wodehouse’s golf stories featuring the Oldest Member.
Written by
P. G. Wodehouse
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
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.
Written by
James Stephens
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fantasy · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
Summary
The comic diary of a young woman recounting her escapades and romances in 1920s New York and Europe.
Written by
Anita Loos
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A woman tricks her husband into fulfilling his marriage demands.
Written by
William Shakespeare
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Drama
Source
Standard Ebooks
Or, A Jest in Sober Earnest
Summary
A phrasebook of unintentionally hilarious English.
Written by
José da Fonseca
Pedro Carolino
Language
English
Category
Comedy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A woman disguises herself as a man and becomes entangled in the courtship of two aristocrats.
Written by
William Shakespeare
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Drama
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Over the course of twenty-four hours, a blackmail plot threatens to bring down a member of the British aristocracy.
Written by
Oscar Wilde
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Drama
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short fiction, ordered by date of publication.
Written by
Edgar Allan Poe
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Comedy · Horror · Mystery · Satire · Science Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Two lovers are prevented from marrying due to a previous dalliance.
Written by
William Congreve
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Drama
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of stories featuring P. G. Wodehouse’s charismatic character Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.
Written by
P. G. Wodehouse
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
This comedy follows four lovers and a thespian who become bewitched by fairies.
Written by
William Shakespeare
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Drama
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Comedy of Justice
Summary
Jurgen, a pawnbroker and “monstrous clever fellow,” is sent on a witty and parodic magical journey in search of true love.
Written by
James Branch Cabell
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fantasy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of Wodehouse’s school stories about the lives and adventures of schoolboys in the early 1900s.
Written by
P. G. Wodehouse
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of short stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster and the upperclass English life of the early 1900s.
Written by
P. G. Wodehouse
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Story of American Life
Summary
An aimless young man leaves the city for a small village to work for a horse-trading country banker.
Written by
Edward Noyes Westcott
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks