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Better known as Richard the Lion-Hearted, or The "Good Guy" in Robin Hood
A popular (i.e., not scholarly) history of the man and his times.
The brother of Jacob; the difference in their writing is evident.
The last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam
The New York Review of Books quotes Punch as saying "...extraordinarily well written...it is witty, human, often very beautiful."
Bangs's stories take place primarily in the afterlife. He may have been an inspiration for Philip Jose Farmer's Riverboat series.
Wikipedia article on A House-Boat on the Styx. These are the foundational works of Bangsian fantasy.
In this set of stories, the shade of Boswell returns to tell stories on the Enchanted Typewriter. When Boswell's shade is unavailable, Xantippe, wife of Socrates, fills in.
This is not part of the Bangsian Fantasy canon. This is straight-out metropolitan political satire.
A Series of Books on Early 20th Century Technologies
If you are a short humor fan (think Thurber) and haven't yet had a Benchley laugh, get this one. It's a great introduction to one of the premier humorists of the 20th century.
Dorothy L. Sayers (of Lord Peter Wimsey fame) identified this book as the first modern detective novel. With its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting, it is at once a send-off and a send-up of the genre.
Biggers is the author of the Charlie Chan mysteries. This is not one of them. Wikipedia article on Earl Derr Biggers.
Primarily a children's book, selected for Billinghurst's delightful and humorous illustrations.
16 short biographies of such people as Lister, William Morris, Cecil Rhodes, and Charles Dickens.
In honor of the Olympic Games opening in Bei-jing on Oct Oct Aught-Oct, this most diverse and deleterious of publishing houses brings to your most illustrious attention an oft-neglected work by Mr. Bramah. Your unworthy publisher commends it to your highly selective regard.
Humorous travelogue through Russia, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and the Faro Islands — as they were before the U.S. Civil War.
Book written in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson. Reproduced in commemoration of the 400th anniversary. Could a non-Mac author's name be any more Scottish? I mean, really.
Just a "nice" book. If you're a Dostoevsky fan, keep on walkin', there's nothing happening here.
Short but good.
A biography of a curate from a great, but nearly forgotten American humorist. There will be more Cobb.
Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
Not among Doyle's best-known works, this set of tales give another view of the Napoleonic Wars, from the French side, as told by an old man who was an up-and-coming officer then.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
From the earliest times until the death of King Edward VII (if you don't know when that is, perhaps this book will prove useful).
If you don't remember Uncle Wiggily — well, that is just sad. Try one. There will be more.
It's not Monty Python, but Gilbert does a good job with some rather old material.
The diary is that of Mr Charles Pooter, a city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in Upper Holloway. Other characters include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, and Lupin's unsuitable fiancée, Daisy Mutlar.
Brer Rabbit and company tell their stories. The language of the time in which it was written may be offensive to those of us who came of age during and after the Civil Rights Movement.
A series of historical fiction, designed to interest early teen boys in their studies.
By special request. A fantasy classic. Wikipedia article on Hodgson.
The Adventures of A.J. Raffles, Amateur Cracksman
The first of the humourous traveloges, which not only revitalized Victorian travel fiction, but also was crucial to the success of To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. An excellent book, highly recommended by your publisher.
McCutcheon is one of my favorite authors from the early 20th century. He wrote Brewster's Millions (yes, the movie), the Graustark books (marvelous; I hope to re-publish them again: the originals were lost in the Great Hard Drive Crash of Aught-Seven), and other wonderful works of wit.
Further adventures of this western New Englander doin' his detectivin'.
One of the books in the Graustark series.
A standalone tale built around A Christmas Carol.
The History of Photogen and Nicteris
A novella originally published in Harper's Young People in December 1879-January 1880. A "fairy story" about a boy who's never seen the moon, a girl who's never seen the sun, and how they have to work together to escape an evil witch. Levels within levels, however.
Introduction to the Old Testament
An insightful, though somewhat dry, study.
A tale of adventure.
Yes, it's an A.A. Milne book, but it's NOT Pooh; it's a collection of his writings from Punch. Very reminiscent of Wodehouse, although the two were not friends.
A novel in Mundy's Jimgrim Saga.
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Before there was Hans Christian Anderson, there was Charles Perrault.
A "somewhat different mystery" the subheading says. And it is.
A delightful little mystery.
One of the earlier examples of Graustarkian literature. See the Wikipedia article here.
The Life and Times of Peter Stuyvesant
One of my favorite historians: a man with an attitude. Additionally, the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson is coming soon, and — as you might expect — this has a bit about the history of the river in it.
Wyrkyn is known to most P.G. Wodehouse readers at the school at which the character Psmith is introduced in Mike and Psmith. Its literary origins go back further than that, as this collection of short stories from the beginning decade of the 20th century shows.
An early book by a master of British humour. Link to a P.G. Wodehouse appreciation page and to the Hub Page of the Wodehouse webring.
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