Comedy

Title: The Ransom of Red Chief /
Gift of the Magi
Author: O Henry (1862-1910)
Series: Comedy
ISBN: 1-86092-011-X
O Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter, was born in South Carolina, USA. He was convicted on a charge of embezzlement in 1896 and wrote his first short stories from prison. O Henry's humorous and ingenius plots soon earned him a reputation as one of the most popular short story writers of his day. In The Ransom of Red Chief two outlaws kidnap an unruly child and soon come to regret it. The Gift of Magi is one of O Henry's most celebrated stories..

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Title: The Dancing Partner/
Clocks
Author: Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)
Series: Comedy
ISBN: 1-86092-050-0
Most famous for his classic, comic novel Three Men in a Boat (1889), which describes a rowing holiday on the Thames enjoyed by three men and their dog, Jerome K. Jerome first published The Dancing Partner three years later in Novel Notes. It is about as black as humour can get. An inventor creates a machine that can dance with all the girls at new society balls, but the results are far from satisfactory. Still in mechanical vain, this edition includes Jerome's little-known short, comic essay, Clocks.

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Here We Are/
A Telephone Call
Author: Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Series: Comedy
ISBN: 1-86092-017-9
Dorothy Parker is remembered as much today for her sparkling short stories as for her poems and her witty remarks. In Here We Are a newly wedded couple prepares for the first evening of a honeymoon in New York. Both he and she face the stark possibility that marriage may not be quite as jolly as they had each anticipated. In A Telephone Call Parker's satiric wit is focussed on a hapless and frantic girl as she waits impatiently by the telephone praying that her lover will ring.

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Title: Sredni Vashta /
The Secret Sin Septimus Brope /
The Lumber Room
Author: Saki (1870-1916)
Series: Comedy
ISBN: 1-86092-013-6
Hector Hugh Monro (alias Saki) was one the most accomplished short story writers of the English language, and the three stories printed here are brilliant examples of his wit and ingenuity in this form. The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope, and Sredni Vashtar both first appeared in the short story collection, The Chronicles of Clovis (1912). The Lumber-Room, an account of a young boy's escape from the domineering authority of his bossy aunts, was published two years later in Saki's popular collection entitled Beasts and Super-Beasts.

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Title: On Guard /
Bella Flea Gave a Party
Author: Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
Series: Comedy
ISBN: 1-86092-000-4
In each of these early short stories, Evelyn Waugh's black humour and satiric skill are both at their sharpest. The poodle, Hector, takes a central role in On Guard (1932), fiercely defending his putty-nosed mistress, Millicent Blade, from the advances of unwanted suitors. In Bella Fleace Gave a Party (1934), an octogenarian Irish aristocrat prepares her crumbling mansion for a great evening of festivities, but things don't necessarily all go to plan.

 

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Title: Goodbye to all Cats
Author: P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)
Series: Comedy
ISBN: 1-86092-004-7
Freddie Widgeon, anxious to make a good impression, visits Matcham Scratchings, the home of his beloved, Dahlia Prenderby. But its animal occupants soon turn his stay into a disastrous and hilarious farce... P. G. Wodehouse is the most popular of all quintessentially English humorists. He wrote over 120 volumes, creating such famous figures as Bertie Wooster and his butler, Jeeves, Lord Emsworth and his famous sow, the Empress of Blandings, Psmith, Mulliner and a host of other memorably comic characters. After a scandal during the Second World War, he moved permanently to America, becoming a US citizen in 1955.

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