RONNIE CORBETT: *Introduction*
P.G. WODEHOUSE: *'The Voice from the Past'*
RING LARDNER: *Mr and Mrs Fix-It*
H.F. ELLIS: *Lent Term 1939 The Man Faggott* (from *The Papers of A.J. Wentworth, BA*)
FREDERIC RAPHAEL: *Chinatown*
MARK TWAIN: *A Restless Night*
KEITH WATERHOUSE: *A Family Breakfast* (from *Billy Liar*)
BARRY PAIN: *The Insult*
ANONYMOUS: *The Simple Story of G. Washington*
PAUL THEROUX: *Algebra*
NATHANIEL GUBBINS: *Gubbins Goes to War*
JAMES HERRIOT: *Tristan's Romance* (from *Vet in a Spin*)
BRET HARTE: *A Jersey Centenarian*
A.C. GAMES: *Russell's Fantasy*
ROBERT J. BURDETTE: *First-class Snake Stories*
BOB LARBEY: *New Jobs for Old* (from *A Fine Romance*)
OSCAR WILDE: *The Canterville Ghost*
RING LARDNER: *A Day with Conrad Green*
SEAN O'FAOLAIN: *The Woman Who Married Clark Gable*
JEROME K. JEROME: *I Become an Actor*
DAVID NOBBS: *Chlistmas* (from *The Better World of Reginald Perrin*)
BARRY PAIN: *The Unsuccessful Sinner*
GIOVANNI GUARESCHI: *Crime and Punishment* (from *The Little World of Don Camillo*)
JAMES HERRIOT: *The Butcher* (from *Vets Might Fly*)
DOROTHY PARKER: *You Were Perfectly Fine*
ARNOLD BENNETT: *Raising a Wigwam* (from *The Card*)
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: *The Facts Of Life*
STEPHEN LEACOCK: *Mr Plumter, BA, Revisits the Old Shop* (from *Happy Stories*)
ROB BUCKMAN: *Jogging from Memory* (from *Jogging from Memory*)
ALASDAIR GREY: *The Problem* (from *Unlikely Stories, Mostly*)
JOYCE GRENFELL: *Canteen in Wartime* (from *Turn Back the Clock*)
ART BUCHWALD: *Coward in the Congo* (from *I Chose Caviar*)
SAKI: *The Story-teller*
JOHN VERNEY: *Tea at the Embassy* (from *Verney Abroad*)
HARRY SECOMBE: *Goon Away — Try Next Door* (from *Goon for Lunch*)
JOHN WYNDHAM: *Pawley's Peepholes* (from *The Seeds of Time*)
JEAN DAVIS: *Trees and Tribulations*
GROUCHO MARX: *A Blind Date Can Be a Pig in a Poke Bonnet* (from *Memoirs of a Mangy Lover*)
DOUGLAS SUTHERLAND: *The Gentleman at Home* (from *The English Gentleman*)
P.G. WODEHOUSE: *'The Great Sermon Handicap'* (from *The Inimitable Jeeves*)
GEORGE & WEEDON GROSSMITH: *Diary of a Nobody* (from *Diary of a Nobody*)
ART BUCHWALD: *My Favourite Tourists* (from *I Chose Caviar*)
IRIS MURDOCH: *The sale of the* Artemis (from *The Flight from the Enchanter*)
ARTHUR MARSHALL: *Take A Pew* (from *I'll Let You Know*)
JAMES THURBER: *The Day the Dam Broke* (from *My Life and Hard Times*)
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON: *Nonorigination* (from *In-laws and Outlaws*)
DOUGLAS ADAMS: *April Showers* (from *So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish*)
JAMES THURBER: *A Sequence of Servants* (from *My Life and Hard Times*)
JOHN MOLE: *The Monogamist*
RUDYARD KIPLING: *A Friend's Friend*
FRAN LEBOWITZ: *Writing: A Life Sentence* (from *Metropolitan Life*)
PETER USTINOV: *Schooldays* (from *Dear Me*)
PATRICK CAMPBELL: *East is West*
PHYLLIS BENTLEY: *At the Crossing* (from *More Tales of the West Riding*)
O. HENRY: *Memoirs of a Yellow Dog*
BASIL BOOTHROYD: *Coming to Grips* (from *Let's Move House*)
A.C. GAMES: *The Concerns of Angus Daines*
ROBERT ROBINSON: *The Middle-aged Philistine Abroad* (from *The Dog Chairman*)
SUE TOWNSEND: *A New School Year* (from *The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole*)
GROUCHO MARX: *Speed the Parting Guest* (from *Memoirs of a Mangy Lover*)
SAKI: *The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope*
NEIL BOYD: *One Sinner Who Will Not Repent* (from *A Father Before Christmas*)
DOUGLAS SUTHERLAND: *The Gentleman and the Opposite Sex* (from *The English Gentleman*)
DAMON RUNYON: *The Big Umbrella*
ROBERT ROBINSON: *Our Betters* (from *The Dog Chairman*)
JOYCE GRENFELL: *Antique Shop* (from *Turn Back the Clock*)
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM: *The Escape*
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN: *School for Waiters*
ARTHUR MARSHALL: *Cold Comfort Cottage* (from *I'll Let You Know*)
MAX APPLE: *Carbo-loading* (from *Free Agents*)
ROB BUCKMAN: *Gray's Anatomy in a Country Churchyard* (from *Jogging from Memory*)
BARRY PAIN: *The Recitation*
ART BUCHWALD: *Alone in No Man's Lapland* (from *I Chose Caviar*)
GERALD DURRELL: *The Human Animal* (from *Encounters with Animals*)
E.F. BENSON: *The Party* (from *Lucia's Progress*)
AUBERON WAUGH: *Inflammable Nighties* (from *Consider the Lilies*)
DAVID NIVEN: *'The Emperor'* (from *Bring on the Empty Horses*)
G.K. CHESTERTON: *The Singular Speculation of the House Agent* (from *The Club of Queer Trades*)
NANCY MITFORD: *Castle Life* (from *Love in a Cold Climate*)
GEOFFREY WILLANS and RONALD SEARLE: *How to Succeed as a New Bug* (from *How to be Topp*)
GERALD DURRELL: *A Porcupine in the Parish* (from *Menagerie Manor*)
E.M. DELAFIELD: *Foreign Climes* (from *The Provincial Lady Goes Further*)
JOHN VERNEY: *Top of the Morning* (from *Verney Abroad*)
