Nineteenth-Century Textspeak
Poems from the Victorian era and before which anticipated 21st-century textspeak….more
Poems from the Victorian era and before which anticipated 21st-century textspeak….more
In this strangest of diaries, the author and adventurer Edwin Emerson Jr voices one year in his life through the mouth of Samuel Pepys….more
In the style of an 18th-century ballad chapbook, a comic look at various professions and there roles both old and new….more
Compilation of some of the best conversational witticisms of the 18th and 19th centuries, including Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, and Lord Byron, and…more
A 1906 edition of William Cowper’s famous ballad, illustrated with brilliantly comic woodcuts from Robert Seaver….more
From whole multi-paragraph excerpts to single lines, this wonderful little book dedicates itself, as the title declares, to presenting the wit and wisdom to be foun…more
Illustrated by George Cruikshank among others, a collection of word, number, and picture puzzles in the form of enigmas, conundrums, acrostics, and a series of incr…more
One of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl, this collection of fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s Aesop-style originals from m…more
One of the first of the immensely popular 18th-century “it-narratives”, the tale of coin and the human intrigue to which it finds itself bearing witness….more
A collection of the English illustrator and caricaturist John Leech’s cartoons for Punch, the humorous and satirical magazine founded in 1841 by Henry Mayhew….more
A satirical dictionary written by American journalist and author Ambrose Bierce (1842-ca.1914), a man whose savage wit apparently earned him the nickname “Bitter Bi…more
A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift. The particular butt of Swift’s sharp pen in this ins…more
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