The Folio Book of Humour

This anthology gathers short humorous extracts from novels, plays, poems, stories, and occasional prose rather than printing complete works. Typical pieces include social satire, domestic farce, deadpan observation, and a speaker who records other people's folly. Voices range from earlier English comic writers to later novelists and columnists. The extracts are independent; there is no frame that turns them into one narrative. The book is a miscellany of comic passages, not a single comic novel and not the same volume as a short-story anthology of humour.

Bound in yellow cloth with a design in red and black by Jamie Keenan Red slipcase blocked in gilt with typefaces.