Parodies

Here are entered collections of parodies in several languages or of several literatures, in the English language, or of English and American literature. Collections in other languages or of other literatures are entered under Parodies qualified by language or nationality, e.g. Parodies, French. Works on the literary form of humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature are entered under Parody.

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• Wit and humor

• Burlesques

• Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951. Purple cow -- Parodies

• Spoofs (Parodies)
• Travesties (Parodies)

• The Book of Ballads (New York: Redfield, 1852), ed. by Theodore Martin and William Edmondstoune Aytoun (PDF files at fcla.edu)
• A Christmas Garland, by Max Beerbohm (Gutenberg text)
• Heavens (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Louis Untermeyer, illust. by C. Bertram Hartman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Misfits: A Book of Parodies (Oxford: F. Harvey, 1905), by George F. Forrest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1890), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Parody Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1922), ed. by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Parody Outline of History, by Donald Ogden Stewart (Gutenberg text)
• Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)

• The Re-Echo Club (New York: F. Bigelow Corp, c1913), by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg text and page images)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Book of Burlesques (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c1920), by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles Timothy Brooks (PDF page images at MSU)
• A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), ed. by Carolyn Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Books and Bookmen, by Ian Maclaren (Gutenberg text)

• Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Norman Norwood Holland (page images at ufl.edu)

• One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)

• The Dramatic Values in Plautus (1918), by Wilton W. Blancké (Gutenberg text)
• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
• Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)

• An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)

• Mother's Geese: A New Brood (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906), by George Barr Baker, George C. Chappell, and Oliver Herford, illust. by T. Gilbert White (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• Tales of Humour (based on an 1890 edition, with credits and corrections added), ed. by Susan Rhoads (illustrated HTML at elfinspell.com)

• A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear
  • illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Limeratomy: A Compedium of Universal Knowledge for the More Perfect Understanding of the Human Machine (New York: J. B. Pond, 1917), by Anthony Euwer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Limerick Lyrics: A Collection of Over 700 Choice Versifications, To Which is Added a Number of Short Verses, From Many Sources (New York: T. J. Carey and Co., 1904), ed. by Stanton Vaughn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Limerick Up to Date Book (San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., 1903), by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, illust. by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant and Addison Mizner (page images at HathiTrust)
• More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc., by Edward Lear (illustrated HTML at nonsenselit.org)
• The Smile on the Face of the Tiger: A Collection of Limericks (editorship uncertain, but attributed to Bolton; Boston: Bacon and Brown, 1909), contrib. by Charles Knowles Bolton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The World's Best Limericks (Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, c1951), ed. by Peter Pauper Press, illust. by Richard Floethe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope (HTML at Rutgers)
• The Rape of the Lock (several versions, with illustrations and commentary), by Alexander Pope (illustrated HTML at umass.edu)

• The New Pun Book: Collected, Edited and Arranged From the Notes of Two Learned Pundits (New York: Frank Vernon and Co., c1906), ed. by Thomas A. Brown and T. J. Carey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Merrie Conceited Jests, by George Peele (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at djm.cc
• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Maze (electronic edition), by Christopher Manson (illustrated HTML at obs-us.com)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)

• The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., ca. 1882), by Josephine Pollard, illust. by Hugh McVickar (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Brayhard: The Strange Adventures of One Ass and Seven Champions (ca. 1890), by Edmund Downey, illust. by Harry Furniss (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Sarah (Boston: W. J. Reynolds and Co., ca. 1851) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Plish and Plum (Boston: Roberts Bros., ca. 1883), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles Timothy Brooks (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Sugar and Spice: Comical Tales Comically Dressed, by James Johnson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Laughable Stories (London: Luzac and Co., 1897), by Bar Hebraeus, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• The Comical Adventures of Beau Ogleby (London: Tilt and Bogue, ca. 1840) (PDF at MSU)
• The Fortunes of Ferdinand Flipper (New York: Pub. at the Brother Jonathan Office, ca. 1859) (at dartmouth.edu)
• Hay Fever, by Augustus Hoppin (page images at MOA)
• My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke, by J. M. Barrie, illust. by Maurice Prendergast (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.