Comedy & satire
Wit, parody, nonsense and the comic novel.
New books in this genre
Landmark works
- 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- 1813 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen · read free
- 1600 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- 1932 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- 1623 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- 1861 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens · read free
- 1600 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare · read free
- 1623 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- 1623 As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
- 1623 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
- 1962 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- 1734 The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
- 1871 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
- 1836 The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens · read free
- 1983 Discworld by Terry Pratchett
- 1884 Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott · read free
- 2012 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
- 1990 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett
- 1983 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
- 1889 Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome · read free
- 1928 Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
- 1986 The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
- 1987 Mort by Terry Pratchett
- 1876 The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
- 1988 Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
- 1996 Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
- 1987 Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
- 1991 Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
- 1988 Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
Writers
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William Shakespeare1564–1616 · English playwright and poet (1564–1616) -
Charles Dickens1812–1870 · English novelist and social critic (1812–1870) -
Jane Austen1775–1817 · author, novelist, writer (1775–1817) -
J. K. Rowling1965 · English author (born 1965) -
Virginia Woolf1882–1941 · English modernist writer (1882–1941) -
William Blake1757–1827 · English poet and artist (1757–1827) -
Lewis Carroll1832–1898 · British author and scholar (1832–1898) -
Aldous Huxley1894–1963 · viva el completo (1894–1963) -
Samuel Johnson1709–1784 · English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784) -
Graham Greene1904–1991 · British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991) -
Harold Pinter1930–2008 · British playwright (1930–2008) -
Terry Pratchett1948–2015 · English fantasy author (1948–2015) -
Hugh Laurie1959 · English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer (born 1959) -
John Dryden1631–1700 · 17th-century English poet and playwright (1631–1700) -
Ben Jonson1572–1637 · English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637) -
Stephen Fry1957 · British comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist -
Anthony Burgess1917–1993 · English writer and composer (1917–1993) -
Evelyn Waugh1903–1966 · British writer and journalist (1903–1966) -
Henry Fielding1707–1754 · English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754) -
Jerome K. Jerome1859–1927 · English humorist (1859-1927) -
Aphra Behn1640–1689 · British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689) -
P. G. Wodehouse1881–1975 · English author (1881–1975) -
Eric Idle1943 · British comedian, actor and writer (born 1943) -
Ian McEwan1948 · British author (born 1948)
And 78 more
- Noël Coward (1899)
- Julian Barnes (1946)
- Samuel Butler (1835)
- Martin Amis (1949)
- Martin McDonagh (1970)
- Anthony Trollope (1815)
- Edward Lear (1812)
- George Meredith (1828)
- Arnold Bennett (1867)
- David Garrick (1717)
- J. B. Priestley (1894)
- Helen Fielding (1958)
- Alan Bennett (1934)
- W. S. Gilbert (1836)
- Peter Shaffer (1926)
- Ben Elton (1959)
- John Burgoyne (1722)
- John Vanbrugh (1664)
- William Beckford (1760)
- Max Beerbohm (1872)
- Howard Jacobson (1942)
- Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838)
- Thomas Middleton (1580)
- Alan Ayckbourn (1939)
- Thomas Nashe (1567)
- Terence Rattigan (1911)
- David Nicholls (1966)
- Thomas Hood (1799)
- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805)
- Michael Frayn (1933)
- Francis Beaumont (1584)
- Jez Butterworth (1969)
- Thomas Dekker (1572)
- Compton Mackenzie (1883)
- Jasper Fforde (1961)
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1627)
- Stella Gibbons (1902)
- Colley Cibber (1671)
- Willy Russell (1947)
- R. C. Sherriff (1896)
- Philip Massinger (1583)
- Christopher Fry (1907)
- Arthur Wing Pinero (1855)
- William Wycherley (1640)
- Patrick Hamilton (1904)
- Elizabeth Inchbald (1753)
- Eliza Haywood (1693)
- Thomas Heywood (1574)
- Thomas Shadwell (1642)
- Adam Roberts (1965)
- James Shirley (1596)
- Enid Bagnold (1889)
- Susanna Centlivre (1667)
- Thomas d'Urfey (1653)
- A. P. Herbert (1890)
- E. V. Lucas (1868)
- Henry Carey (1687)
- John Van Druten (1901)
- Thomas Killigrew (1612)
- Peter Ustinov (1921)
- Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856)
- Richard Cumberland (1731)
- George Colman the Younger (1762)
- Dornford Yates (1885)
- Hannah Cowley (1743)
- Peter Nichols (1927)
- Val Gielgud (1900)
- Henry James Byron (1835)
- Terence Frisby (1932)
- Mary Pix (1666)
- Edgar Jepson (1863)
- Archibald Clavering Gunter (1847)
- Cosmo Stuart (1869)
- N. C. Hunter (1908)
- Kingsley Amis (1922)
- Paul Stewart (1955)
- John Birmingham (1964)
- John Godber (1956)