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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.

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