THE FOLIO SOCIETY
BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Humour
Whether you're rolling the acid wit of Dorothy Parker over your tongue or laughing out loud at the unfortunate antics of a P. G. Wodehouse hero, there are few pleasures like that of sitting down with a book that you know will bring a warm smile to your face.
The Best After-Dinner Stories
Various Authors
Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge.
Your price US$37.95
The Best of Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
No one was quicker off the mark with a wisecrack than Dorothy Parker, who kept the tables of New York and Hollywood on a roar in the 1920s and 30s.
Your price US$37.95
The Best of the Marx Brothers
From vaudeville tours across America to A Night at the Opera, the Marx Brothers wise-cracked their way into entertainment legend. To paraphrase Groucho, from the moment you pick up this book until the moment you lay it down, you will be convulsed with laughter.
Your price US$49.95
The Compleet Molesworth
Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
Nigel Molesworth, the ‘goriller of 3b’ and ‘curse of st custard’s’ is the superb chronicler of life at a 1950s British prep school. Here the full tetralogy is gathered together along with Ronald Searle’s witty and wicked cartoons.
Your price US$54.95
The Complete Prose of Woody Allen
Woody Allen
It was in writing for magazines such as The New Yorker that Woody Allen found his comic voice. This first ever illustrated edition of his essays, short stories and playlets will find you revelling in some of the sharpest comic writing of the last 40 years.
Your price US$54.95
The Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose 'Bitter' Bierce was immortalised by The Devil's Dictionary. His series of satirical definitions and irreverent aphorisms first appeared from 1881 to 1886 in the columns of a provincial newspaper, impaling the sacred cows of civilised life - and much else besides - upon the spikes of his own mordant wit.
Your price US$34.95
Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense
Edward Lear
Introduced by Quentin Blake, this is a collection of Edward Lear's finest work of 'nonsense'.
Your price US$49.95
The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories
Selected by David Hughes
From simple slapstick to cool sophistication, these stories share a genius for setting off life's fireworks.
Your price US$44.95
The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes
Edward Leeson
They are what Churchill called 'the gleaming toys of history' – those entertaining stories, many of them biographical, that light up past and present and fix them in our memories.
Your price US$39.95
The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis
Darkly comic yet deadly serious, The Screwtape Letters depicts a morally reversed world in which Screwtape presses his protégé to ever more ingenious means of temptation.
Your price US$39.95
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome's insuperable descriptions of every mishap and anecdote, from packing the hampers to George's attempts at banjo playing (while Montmorency howls steadily) turn this tale of three men boating on the Thames into one of the funniest, best-loved books ever written
Your price US$49.95
The Wit of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
The name of Oscar Wilde has become synonymous with wit. This volume brings together some of the finest and most biting examples - chosen by his grandson from a wide range of essays, stories, plays and poetry - all of them the authentic product of the man who claimed he had nothing to declare but his genius.
Your price US$37.95
Your basket
Your basket is empty
