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The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.

Index to Authors

Ali Ben Abd
Edmond About
Abraham a Sancta Clara (Ulrich Megerle)
Abu-Ishak
George Ade
Æsop
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Leopoldo Alas
Baltasar del Alcázar
Louisa May Alcott
William Livingston Alden
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
American College Humor
Ananzi (Spider) Stories
Hans Christian Andersen
Cecco Angiolieri
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous (Bohemian)
Anonymous (French 15th Century)
Anonymous (Spanish: 18th Century)
Anonymous (Time of George I)
Apuleius
Arabian Riddle
John Arbuthnot
Lodovico Ariosto
Aristophanes
E. Arnal
Matthew Arnold
Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau
Jane Austen
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Sir Theodore Martin
Francis Bacon
Josephine Daskam Bacon
James Montgomery Bailey
Li Bai
Kiokutei Bakin
Alexander Balázs
Joseph Glover Baldwin
Harlan Hoge Ballard
Honoré de Balzac
Matteo Bandello
Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby)
Bar-Hebraeus (Abu’l-Faraj Gregorius)
J. M. Barrie
Lord Beaconsfield
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Henry Ward Beecher
Pierre Jean de Béranger
Árpád Berczik
Cyrano de Bergerac
Francesco Berni
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Bohemian Traditional Legend
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
George Borrow
Edmé Boursault
Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
David Augustin de Brueys and Jean Palaprat
William Cullen Bryant
Arnold Weruméus Buning
Henry Cuyler Bunner
Robert Jones Burdette
Gottfried August Bürger
Gelett Burgess
Francis Cowley Burnand
Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d’Arblay)
Robert Burns
Wilhelm Busch
Samuel Butler
William Allen Butler
Lord Byron
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Charles Stuart Calverley
George Canning
Henry Carey
Henry Guy Carleton
Thomas Carlyle
Charles Edward Carryl
Guy Wetmore Carryl
Enrico Castelnuovo
Jacob Cats
Catullus
Benvenuto Cellini
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Adelbert von Chamisso
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anton Chekhov
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
Chinese Popular Novel
Chinese Proverbs
Charles Churchill
Matthias Claudius
William Cobbett
Confucius
William Congreve
Edward Copleston
François Coppée
Abraham Cowley
Hannah Cowley
William Cowper
Frederick Swartwout Cozzens
Georgiana Marion Craik
George William Curtis
Dalmation Traditional Legend
Alphonse Daudet
Denis Davidov
Sam Post Davis
Holman Francis Day
Edmondo De Amicis
Daniel Defoe
Thomas Dekker
Jacques Delille
Giovanni Della Casa
Chauncey Mitchell Depew
Thomas De Quincey
George Horatio Derby
Marc-Antoine Désaugiers
Eustache Deschamps
Charles Dibdin
Charles Dickens
Denis Diderot
Mary Mapes Dodge
Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge (John Carver)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Do-Pyazah
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Doun de Laverne
Gustave Droz
John Dryden
Alexandre Dumas
Finley Peter Dunne
Jehan du Pontalais
Maria Edgeworth
George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross)
Desiderius Erasmus
Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian
Eulenspiegel’s Pranks
Paolo Ferrari
Mirza Fet-Ali
Eugene Field
Henry Fielding
James Thomas Fields
Firdausi
Antonio Ribot y Fontseré
Samuel Foote
James L. Ford
Simeon Ford
Sam Walter Foss
Anatole France
Benjamin Franklin
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Gustav Freytag
Isaac Kahn Friedman
Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni
Ludwig Fulda
David Garrick
Elizabeth Gaskell
Théophile Gautier
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
German Students’ Songs
Antonio Ghislanzoni
William Schwenck Gilbert
Strickland W. Gillilan
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nikolai Gogol
Carlo Goldoni
Oliver Goldsmith
Luis de Góngora y Argote
Maksim Gorky
Carlo Gozzi
Thomas Gray
The Greek Anthology
Albert Gorton Greene
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
Aleksander Griboyedov
Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Thomas Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey)
Gyp (Madame de Martel)
H. Rider Haggard
Haitian Popular Sayings
Edward Everett Hale
Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Charles Graham Halpine
Sir John Harington
Joel Chandler Harris
Bret Harte
Wilhelm Hauff
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Hay
Alfred Hedenstierna (Sigurd)
Heinrich Heine
Oliver Herford
George Vere Hobart
Ludvig Holberg
Marietta Holley
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Homer
Thomas Hood
Theodore Hook
Johnson J. Hooper
Anthony Hope
Francis Hopkinson
Horace
William Dean Howells
Thomas Hughes
Victor Hugo
Hurtado de Mendoza
Henrik Ibsen
Tomás de Iriarte
Irish Bulls
Washington Irving
Japanese Popular Farce
Jean Paul (J. P. F. Richter)
Jerome K. Jerome
Douglas William Jerrold
Sarah Orne Jewett
Samuel Johnson
Mór Jókai
Ben Jonson
Juvenal
Kalidasa
Jarvis Keiley
Andrew V. Kelley (Parmenas Mix)
Omar Khayyám
Ivan Khemnitser
Ben King
Charles Kingsley
Rudyard Kipling
Heinrich von Kleist
Charles Paul de Kock
August Kopisch
Korean Legendary Tale
Karl Arnold Kortum
August von Kotzebue
William J. Kountz, Jr.
Ivan Krylov
Eugène Labiche
Eugène Labiche and Édouard Martin
Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Fontaine
Charles Lamb
Melville De Lancey Landon (Eli Perkins)
Andrew Lang
George Thomas Lanigan
François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
Mariano José de Larra
Latvian Popular Tales
Stephen Leacock
Charles Godfrey Leland
Giacomo Leopardi
Alain René Lesage
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Charles Lever
Charles Bertrand Lewis (M Quad)
Jonas Lie
John Gibson Lockhart
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
George Horace Lorimer
Samuel Lover
James Russell Lowell
Lucian
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Charles Fletcher Lummis
George, Lord Lyttelton
Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay
William Maginn
Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout)
William Hurrell Mallock
Alessandro Manzoni
Danforth Marble
Marguerite de Navarre
Pierre de Marivaux
Frederick Marryat
Martial
Edward Sandford Martin
Andrew Marvell
Mashdud
Guy de Maupassant
William Henry McElroy
Yuan Mei
Catulle Mendès
George Meredith
James Merrick
Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller
John Milton
Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel)
Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Thomas Moore
José Morell
Sir Thomas More
Joshua S. Morris
John Maddison Morton
Gustav von Moser
Ed Mott
Wilhelm Müller
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
Richard Kendall Munkittrick
Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock)
Henri Murger
Alfred de Musset
Nabegat Ben Jaid
Nasir-Ed-Din
Nikolay Nekrasov
Jan Neruda
Robert Henry Newell
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Alberto Nota
Nursery Rhymes
Edgar Wilson (Bill) Nye
Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
Eva L. Ogden
The Old Testament
Richard O’Monroy (J. de Saint Geniès)
Max O’Rell
Édouard Pailleron
Albert Bigelow Paine
William Pitt Palmer
Charles Henry Parkhurst
Blaise Pascal
James Kirke Paulding
James Payn
Thomas Love Peacock
George Wilbur Peck
Samuel Pepys
Thomas Percy
Persius
Petronius
John Philips
Alexis Piron
Plautus
Maria Louise Pool
Alexander Pope
Ignaty Potapenko
Eduard Pötzl
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Florence E. Pratt
Frances Lee Pratt
David Law Proudfit
Luigi Pulci
Philippe Quinault
Edmund Quincy
Wilhelm Raabe (Jacob Corvinus)
François Rabelais
Viktor Rákosi (Sipulus)
Erich Raspe
Charles Reade
Francesco Redi
Jean-François Regnard
Agnes Repplier
Fritz Reuter
William Barnes Rhodes
Albert Gallatin Riddle
James Whitcomb Riley
Harrison Robertson
Thomas William Robertson
James Jeffrey Roche
Edmond Rostand
Friedrich Rückert
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Irwin Russell
Russian Proverbs
Russian Traditional Fairy Tale
Rustico di Filippo
Rutebeuf
Sadi
Masuccio Salernitano
Mikhail Saltykov (Shchedrin)
James Gardner Sanderson
Robert Charles Sands
Moritz Gottlieb Saphir
John Godfrey Saxe
Paul Scarron
Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
The Schildburghers
Friedrich von Schiller
Friedrich August Schultze (Friedrich Laun)
Sir Walter Scott
Serbian Popular Poems
William Shakespeare
Vishnu Sharma (Pilpay)
George Bernard Shaw
Frederick William Shelton
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Frank Dempster Sherman
Murasaki Shikibu
Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber
Sir Philip Sidney
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Edward Rowland Sill
John Skelton
Joseph Bert Smiley
Francis Hopkinson Smith
Marion Couthouy Smith
Seba Smith
Sol Smith
Sydney Smith
Tobias George Smollett
Edith Anna Somerville and Violet Florence Martin (Martin Ross)
Robert Southey
The Spectator and The Tatler
Alaric Bertrand Start
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Laurence Sterne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Julius Stinde
Frank Richard Stockton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lionel Strachey
August Strindberg
Sir John Suckling
Jonathan Swift
Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva)
Sayings from the Talmud
Bayard Taylor
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Terence
William Makepeace Thackeray
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Theophrastus
William Tappan Thompson
The Thousand and One Nights
Hester Lynch Thrale
Edward Waterman Townsend
Frances Milton Trollope
John Townsend Trowbridge
Ivan Turgenev
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Chwang Tze
Nicholas Udall
Armando Palacio Valdés
Justus van Maurik
Marquis de Vauvenargues
Lope de Vega
George Sylvester Viereck
Juan Martínez Villergas
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
Auguste comte de Villiers de L’Isle Adam
François Villon
Vincent Voiture
Voltaire
Katharine Kent Child Walker
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Charles Dudley Warner
John Watson (Ian Maclaren)
Karl Julius Weber
Tomasz Kajetan Wegierski
Carolyn Wells
Paul West
Richard Whately
Richard Grant White
Nathaniel Parker Willis
John Wilson (Christopher North)
William Wycherley
Caliph Yazid I
Yorkshire Proverbs
Sung Yu
Émile Zola
Heinrich Zschokke