English Jests and Anecdotes, Collected from Various Sources

This work is a celebrated collection of amusing and light-hearted English Jests and anecdotes. Apart from being fun to read and easy to understand, these anecdotes published in the 1800s also provide valuable insight into the reader about that time's humor and writing trends. The collection consists of more than three hundred enjoyable English jests and short tales full of humor, and wit. Excerpt from the book: «Wit and the Opposite. Dryden and Otway lived opposite to each other in Queen Street. Otway coming one night from the tavern, chalked upon Dryden's door, „Here lives John Dryden; he is a wit.“ Dryden knew his handwriting, and, next day, chalked on Otway's door, „Here lives Tom Otway; he is oppo-site.“»