PDF Books in Humorous Fiction
Captain Ravenshaw or The Maid of Cheapside - A Romance of Elizabethan London
by Robert Neilson StephensCaptain Ravenshaw or The Maid of Cheapside: A Romance of Elizabethan London is an adventure novel blended with humor and wit which makes it an enthralling read for the mystery lovers. Written by American author Robert Neilson Stephens who has written many novels in the genres of mystery and historical fiction and notable works..
The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll
by H. G. WellsIt seems Wells' has conceived the story of The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll from life experiences of his second wife Catherine Robbins , who is portrayed as Jessie Milton. As in the real life Wells was not able to get along with upper class society, his protagonist in the story Mr. Hoopdriver resembles him. Hoopdriver holiday travel in his b..
The Wrong Box
by Robert Louis StevensonStevenson's black comedy The Wrong Box has been co-authored by his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. In near future one of the two brothers would eventually receive a large sum from an investment scheme, only one of them die. The scary incidents of train crash, numerous dead bodies add fuel to the novel...
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories
by Oscar WildeLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. It includes: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Canterville Ghost, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Model Millionaire, In later editions, another story, ?The Portrait of Mr. W. H., was added to the co..
The Ambassadors
by Henry JamesThe Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad Newsome, his widowed fiancée's supposedly wayward son; he is to bring the ..
The American
by Henry JamesThe American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–77 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first t..
A Bundle of Letters
by Henry JamesA Bundle of Letters, is a comic short story by Henry James, originally published in The Parisian magazine in 1879, which is also when the story takes place. The story is one of James' few ventures into epistolary fiction. As he did so often, especially in the early stages of his career, James made the tale part of his international theme: his lette..
Four Meetings
by Henry JamesFour Meetings written by Henry James is a simple but very touching story which hovers ambiguously between a comic and a tragic tone. As so frequently in James’s work, there is an ‘International’ element to the tale – in this case the powerful attraction which European culture had for Americans. The tension between pathos and bitter irony make it di..