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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
First published in the year 1878, famous philosopher, thinker and writer Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s book ‘Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits’ is the author’s first in the aphoristic style that would come to dominate his writings, discussing a variety of concepts in short paragraphs or sayings.
Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
The present book ‘Humorous Ghost Stories’ is a collection of classic humorous ghost stories that will haunt you as well as tickle you at the same time. These stories were written by the famous fiction writer Dorothy Scarborough. It was first published in the year 1921.
Humour of the North
Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour. . . . The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious claim. It embraces, however, what are believed to be representative examples of the work of some of our better-known writers, many of which will no doubt be quite familiar to Canadian readers, but perhaps none the less welcome on that account. (Summary from the Introduction)
Humour Stories
This book contains an introductory page exclusively about the author, his brief life sketch, notable works and achievements along with word meanings of difficult words on each page marked and highlighted in the text for the students’ convenience and easy understanding of the story. There is also an Exercise part after each story titled as ‘An Understanding’ containing four or five Questions which the reader/student has to answer making the book all the more interesting and reader-friendly.
Humourous Middles
“Humorous Middles is a fine collection of humorous middles, published in major newspapers and magazines. What is it that makes the middle stand apart? The middle is a short composition, hardly ever more than 600 to 800 words. It draws strength from its in-built humour that skips and romps with the deftness of a mountain goat. It thus turns into a sort of mirror, at times, concave, at times, convex, (never does it remain a plain mirror), and manages to see what lies behind the even contours, that people, events or encounters present.
The 120 odd middles compiled in this book were written over a period of about 40 years. They have enough power to evoke laughter at every turn. All of them are distinctly individualistic and are powered by what one may say, the ability to tickle the funny bone.
Humours of Irish Life by Charles L. Graves
“The first of the notable humorists of Irish life was William Maginn, one of the most versatile, as well as brilliant of Irish men of letters.
“He was born in Cork in 1793, and was a classical schoolmaster there in early manhood, having secured the degree of LL.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, when only 23 years of age. The success in “Blackwood’s Magazine” of some of his translations of English verse into the Classics induced him, however, to give up teaching and to seek his fortunes as a magazine writer and journalist in London, at a time when Lamb, De Quincey, Lockhart and Wilson gave most of their writings to magazines.” -Introduction