Humor and Comedy - CD ROM Author:Mark Twain, Jean-Baptiste Moliere, Henry Fielding, Lucian, Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Chaucer, Jonathan Swift, O. Henry, Jerome Jerome From Mark Twain to Abraham Lincoln to O. Henry to Gilbert and Sullivan to Jonathan Swift to — Henry Fielding to Rabelais to Jonathan Swift to Moliere to William Shakespeare to Lucian to — Oscar Wilde, this CD, intended for use with Windows PCs, contains the full text of 198 books. — These books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access. — ... more »Highlights from the table of contents:
Books about Humor and Comedy Laughter, an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson, translated by Cloudesley Brereton On the Idea of Comedy by George Meredith Poetics by Aristotle, translated by S.H. Butcher
Anthologies The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, from Chaucer to Saxe, edited by James Parton Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, edited by Thomas L. Masson, volume 4
Apuleius Cupid and Psyche (in Latin) The Golden Ass, Translated by William Adlington (first published in 1566)
Ariosto Orlando Furioso, in English and Italian
Aristophanes The Acharnians The Birds The Clouds Peace
Honore de Balzac Droll Stories, in English, volumes 1-3
Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary Fantastic Fables
Boccaccio The Decameron, volume 1
William Wells Brown Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States
Samuel Butler (19th century) Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
Samuel Butler (17th century) Hudibras
Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh
Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Hunting of the Snark (poem) Phantasmagoria and Other Poems Sylvie and Bruno Through the Looking Glass
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote in English and Spanish
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems, edited "for popular perusal" by D. Laing Purves
William Congreve The Double-Dealer Incognita Love for Love The Old Bachelor The Way of the World
Ebenezer Cook The Sot-Weed Factor, poem (source of John Barth's novel with the same title) ["sot-weed" means tobacco]
Alphonse Daudet Fromont and Risler Nabob Tartarin of Tarascon Tartarin sur les Alpes in French
Henry Fielding Amelia (volume 1 of works in 12 volumes) The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great (volume 10 of works) The History of Tom Jones, a foundling. The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon A Journey from this World to the Next Miscellanies (volume 2 of works)
Theophile Gautier Captain Fracasse
John Gay The Beggar's Opera
William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan Complete plays (14 of them)
Nikolai Gogol Dead Souls The Inspector General St. John's Eve Taras Bulba and Other Stories
George and Weedon Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody
William Hazlitt Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion
O.Henry Cabbages and Kings The Four Million The Gentle Grafter The Heart of the West Options Roads of Destiny Rolling Stones Sixes and Sevens Strictly Business The Trimmed Lamp The Voice« less