Cold Comfort Farm
Family comedy · Parody
Funny classic comedy books
Older comic fiction can make a social visit, an inheritance or a bid for respectability into a complicated undertaking. Manners and expectations give characters rules to misunderstand, exploit or struggle to obey, with embarrassment often close at hand.
Lucky Jim
Campus novel · Farce
Catch-22
Absurdism · Dark comedy
Audiobook
Topper
Dry wit · Situational comedy
A Confederacy of Dunces
Picaresque · Farce
Audiobook
Three Men in a Boat
Dry wit · Situational comedy
Audiobook
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