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Prion Humour Classics are a series of small-format hardback novels published by Prion Books

Carlton Publishing Group

Carlton Publishing Group is a London, England book publisher of illustrated reference, biography, leisure and entertainment books. It publishes books under the imprints of, Carlton Books, Goodman Books, André Deutsch and Prion...

in the UK.

Title	Author	Introduction by	Published	Originally published
Augustus Carp, Esq. Augustus Carp, Esq. Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man is a satire, originally anonymous, first published in the UK in May 1924 and later that year in the US by Houghton Mifflin. The author was the English doctor Sir Henry Howarth Bashford , and the illustrations were by...	Henry Howarth Bashford Henry Howarth Bashford Sir Henry Howarth Bashford was a distinguished English physician, becoming doctor to George VI. He is now remembered as a writer, in particular of the satirical Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man , which was first published anonymously...	John Letts	Oct 2000	1924
Seven Men and Two Others	Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.-Early life:...	Nigel Williams Nigel Williams (author) Nigel Williams is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright.-Biography:He was educated at Highgate School and Oriel College, Oxford, is married with three sons and lives in Putney, south-west London...	Jan 2001	1950
How to Travel Incognito	Ludwig Bemelmans Ludwig Bemelmans Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian author, an internationally known gourmet, and a writer and illustrator of children's books. He is most noted today for his Madeline books, six of which were published from 1939-1961...	Robert Wernick	April 2001	1952
Mapp and Lucia Mapp and Lucia Mapp and Lucia is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson, and is also the name of a television series based on those novels.-The novels:...	E F Benson	Stephen Pile	Feb 2001	1931
The Freaks of Mayfair	E F Benson	Brian Masters Brian Masters Brian Masters is British writer best known for his biographies of mass murderers. He has also written about the British aristocracy and worked as a translator....	Sep 2001	1916
Accustomed as I Am	Basil Boothroyd Basil Boothroyd John Basil Boothroyd was an English humorous writer, best known for his long association with Punch. As a young man he worked for a bank, but began contributing articles to Punch, and became its assistant editor, a post in which he served for eighteen years. His career as a writer for Punch...	Alistair Sampson	Jul 2001	1975
The Marsh-Marlowe Letters	Craig Brown Craig Brown (satirist) Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown is a British critic and satirist from England, probably best known for his work in Private Eye.-Biography:...		Nov 2001	1984
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup is the fourth novel by J.L. Carr, published in 1975. The novel is a comic fantasy that describes in the form of an official history how a village football club progressed through the FA Cup to beat Glasgow Rangers F.C. in the final at Wembley...	J L Carr		Nov 1999	1975
Diary of a Provincial Lady	E M Delafield	Jilly Cooper Jilly Cooper Jilly Cooper OBE is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles.-Early life:Jilly Sallitt was born in Hornchurch,...	Feb 2000	1930
The Papers of A.J. Wentworth B.A.	H F Ellis	Miles Kington Miles Kington Miles Beresford Kington was a British journalist, musician and broadcaster.-Early life :...	Aug 2000	1949
Squire Haggard's Journal	Michael Green Michael Green (humorist) Michael Green is a British journalist and author of humorous books. He is best known for The Art of Coarse Rugby, The Art of Coarse Acting and other books with similar titles.-Career:...	Michael Green Michael Green (humorist) Michael Green is a British journalist and author of humorous books. He is best known for The Art of Coarse Rugby, The Art of Coarse Acting and other books with similar titles.-Career:...	Sep 2000	1975
The Diary of a Nobody	George George Grossmith George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades... and Weedon Grossmith Weedon Grossmith Walter Weedon Grossmith , better known as Weedon Grossmith, was an English writer, painter, actor and playwright, best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody with his famous brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star, George Grossmith...	William Trevor William Trevor William Trevor, KBE is an Irish author and playwright. He is considered one of the elder statesman of the Irish literary world and widely regarded as the greatest contemporary writer of short stories in the English language....	Jan 2001	1892
Three Men in a Boat Three Men in a Boat Three Men in a Boat ,The Penguin edition punctuates the title differently: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog! published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K...	Jerome K Jerome	Nigel Williams Nigel Williams (author) Nigel Williams is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright.-Biography:He was educated at Highgate School and Oriel College, Oxford, is married with three sons and lives in Putney, south-west London...	Feb 2000	1889
Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures	Douglas Jerrold	Peter Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd CBE is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More he won the Somerset Maugham Award...	Jul 2000	1846
The Unspeakable Skipton	Pamela Hansford Johnson Pamela Hansford Johnson Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.-Career:...	Ruth Rendell Ruth Rendell Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....	Jan 2002	1959
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912.It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature....	Stephen Leacock Stephen Leacock Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC was an English-born Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist...		Mar 2000	1912
No Mother to Guide Her	Anita Loos Anita Loos Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.-Early life:Born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California , where her father, R. Beers Loos, had opened a tabloid newspaper for which her mother, Minerva "Minnie" Smith did most of the work of a newspaper publisher...	Kathy Lette Kathy Lette Kathy Lette is an Australian author who has written a number of bestselling books.Born in Sydney's southern suburbs, she first attracted attention in 1979 as the coauthor of Puberty Blues, a strongly autobiographical, proto-feminist teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls...	Jan 2000	1961
Here's Luck	Lennie Lower Lennie Lower Leonard Waldermar Lower was an Australian humourist who is still considered by many to be the comic genius of Australian journalism.-Life and career:...	James Scanlon	April 2001	1929
The Biography of a Cad	A. G. Macdonnell	Simon Hoggart Simon Hoggart Simon David Hoggart is an English journalist and broadcaster. He writes on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for The Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on Radio 4...	Jan 2001	1939
The Serial	Cyra McFadden Cyra McFadden Cyra McFadden is an American writer, living in the San Francisco Bay Area.McFadden's 1977 novel The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County satirized the trendy lifestyles of the affluent residents of Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco...		Apr 2000	1977
The Eliza Stories	Barry Pain Barry Pain Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer.-Biography:Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta...	Terry Jones Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team....	Feb 2002	1900
The World of S J Perelman	S J Perelman	Woody Allen Woody Allen Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...	May 2000
The World of Simon Raven	Simon Raven Simon Raven Simon Arthur Noël Raven was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence...	Anthony Blond Anthony Blond Anthony Bernard Blond was a British publisher and author.Blond was the elder son of Major Neville Blond CMG, OBE, who was a cousin of Harold Laski. His mother was from a Manchester Sephardic Jewish family; they divorced when Blond was a child. Born in Sale, Cheshire, Blond was educated at Eton,...	Jul 2002
How to Do and Say in England	Anthony Robertson		Oct 2001	1936
The Education of Hyman Kaplan	Leo Rosten Leo Rosten Leo Calvin Rosten was born in Łódź, Russian Empire and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.-Early life:Rosten was born into a Yiddish-speaking family in what is now...	Howard Jacobson Howard Jacobson Howard Jacobson is a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.-Background:...	Mar 2000	1937
The Return of Hyman Kaplan	Leo Rosten Leo Rosten Leo Calvin Rosten was born in Łódź, Russian Empire and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.-Early life:Rosten was born into a Yiddish-speaking family in what is now...		May 2000	1959
The Unrest-Cure and other Tales	Saki Saki Hector Hugh Munro , better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy...	Will Self Will Self William Woodard "Will" Self is an English novelist and short story writer. His fictional style is known for being satirical, grotesque, and fantastical. He is a prolific commentator on contemporary British life, with regular appearances on Newsnight and Question Time...	Jun 2001
The English Gentleman The English Gentleman The English Gentleman is a humorous book written by Douglas Sutherland and illustrated by Timothy Jacques, with an introduction by Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk...	Douglas Sutherland Douglas Sutherland Douglas Chalmers Hutchinson Sutherland was a British author and journalist, who was born at Bongate Hall, Appleby-in-Westmorland, in 1919...	Iain Moncreiffe	Mar 2001	1978
My Life and Hard Times My Life and Hard Times My Life and Hard Times is the 1933 autobiography of James Thurber. It is considered his greatest work as he relates in bewildered deadpan prose the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyond ....	James Thurber James Thurber James Grover Thurber was an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories published in The New Yorker magazine.-Life:...	Clifton Fadiman Clifton Fadiman Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.-Literary career:...	Jul 2000	1933
A Touch of Daniel	Peter Tinniswood Peter Tinniswood Peter Tinniswood was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular cricketing novels...	David Nobbs David Nobbs David Gordon Nobbs is an English comedy writer.Following an education at Marlborough College and Cambridge University, Nobbs wrote for many of Britain's comedy performers over the years, including Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies...	Nov 2001	1969
Cannibalism in the Cars Cannibalism in the Cars Cannibalism in the Cars is a short story by Mark Twain which satirises the political system of the United States of America.The story is about a group of men trapped in a train during a snow storm. After a week, the men know that they must resort to cannibalism for survival. They hold ineffective...	Mark Twain Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...	Roy Blount Jr.	Mar 2000
A Melon for Ecstasy A Melon for Ecstasy A Melon for Ecstasy is a 1971 novel written by John Fortune and John Wells. The title is derived from a fictional Turkish proverb, "A woman for duty / A boy for pleasure / But a melon for ecstasy."-Plot summary:...	John Fortune John Fortune John Fortune is a British satirist, comedian writer and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John... and John Wells John Wells John Wells may refer to:People* John C. Wells , British linguist, phonetician and Esperantist* Jonathan Wells , real name John Corrigan Wells...	John Fortune John Fortune John Fortune is a British satirist, comedian writer and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John...	Jan 2002	1971

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