humour

Book Reviews

• Ernest Bramah: The Wallet of Kai Lung
  - baroque comic tales of a fantastic China
• Derek Brewer: Medieval Comic Tales
  - an anthology
• Frederick Crews: Postmodern Pooh**
  - biting parody of modern literary criticism
• Frederick Crews: The Pooh Perplex*
  - hilariously funny literary criticism of Winnie the Pooh
• John DuVal, Raymond Eichmann: Cuckolds, Clerics, and Countrymen
  Medieval French Fabliaux
• Jill Hadfield: Postcards From Babel
  - a satire on British society under Thatcher
• Linda Jaivin: Eat Me
  - a comedy about the sex lives of four Sydney women
• Michael Krüger: Scenes from the Life of a Best-selling Author
  - funny short stories about books and writing
• Peter Lawrence: Don Juan in Melanesia
• Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress*
  - an inventive science fiction comedy
• David Lodge: Small World
  - an academic comedy, parodying literary theories
• Amélie Nothomb: Fear and Trembling
  - a comic tale about working for a Japanese corporation
• István Örkeny: One Minute Stories*
  - Hungarian stories "while the soft-boiled egg is boiling"
• Vu Trong Phung: Dumb Luck
  - a comic satire of late-colonial Vietnam
• Terry Pratchett: Moving Pictures
• Terry Pratchett: Witches Abroad
• P.G. Wodehouse: Very Good, Jeeves!

I have a small collection of humour online.