Great humorous stories
by P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner, H. F. Ellis, Frederic Raphael, Mark Twain, Keith Waterhouse, Barry Pain, Paul Theroux, Nathaniel Gubbins, James Herriot, Bret Harte, A. C. Games, Burdette, Robert J., Bob Larbey, Oscar Wilde, Seán Ó Faoláin, Jerome Klapka Jérôme, David Nobbs, Giovannino Guareschi, Dorothy Parker, Arnold Bennett, William Somerset Maugham, Stephen Leacock, Rob Buckman, Alasdair Gray, Joyce Grenfell, Art Buchwald, Saki, John Verney, Harry Secombe, John Wyndham, Jean Davis, Groucho Marx, Douglas Sutherland, George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith, Iris Murdoch, Arthur Marshall, James Thurber, C. Northcote Parkinson, Douglas Adams, Mole, John, Rudyard Kipling, Fran Lebowitz, Peter Ustinov, Patrick Campbell, Phyllis Eleanor Bentley, O. Henry, Basil Boothroyd, Robert Robinson, Sue Townsend, Neil Boyd, Damon Runyon, George S. Kaufman, Max Apple, Gerald Malcolm Durrell, E. F. Benson, Auberon Waugh, David Niven, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Nancy Mitford, Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle, E. M. Delafield
RONNIE CORBETT: *Introduction* P.G. WODEHOUSE: *'The Voice from the Past'* RING LARDNER: *Mr and Mrs Fix-It* H.F. ELLIS: *Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott* (from *The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA*) FREDERIC RAPHAEL: *Chinatown* MARK TWAIN: *A Restless Night* KEITH WATERHOUSE: *A Family Breakfast* (from *Billy Liar*) BARRY PAIN: *The Insult* ANONYMOUS: *The Simple Story of G. Washington* PAUL THEROUX: *Algebra* NATHANIEL GUBBINS: *Gubbins Goes to War* JAMES HERRIOT: *Tristan's Romance* (from *Vet in a Spin*) BRET HARTE: *A Jersey Centenarian* A.C. GAMES: *Russell's Fantasy* ROBERT J. BURDETTE: *First-class Snake Stories* BOB LARBEY: *New Jobs for Old* (from *A Fine Romance*) OSCAR WILDE: *The Canterville Ghost* RING LARDNER: *A Day with Conrad Green* SEAN O'FAOLAIN: *The Woman Who Married Clark Gable* JEROME K. JEROME: *I Become an Actor* DAVID NOBBS: *Chlistmas* (from *The Better World of Reginald Perrin*) BARRY PAIN: *The Unsuccessful Sinner* GIOVANNI GUARESCHI: *Crime and Punishment* (from *The Little World of Don Camillo*) JAMES HERRIOT: *The Butcher* (from *Vets Might Fly*) DOROTHY PARKER: *You Were Perfectly Fine* ARNOLD BENNETT: *Raising a Wigwam* (from *The Card*) W. SOMERSET
For young readers
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