George Orwell’s favourite funny books

George Orwell began his article "Funny, but not vulgar" with a direct "the Great age of English humorous writing — not witty and not satirical, but simply humorous — was the first three quarters of the nineteenth century". In the same article, written in 1945, the author listed some of the works from that period he considered the best on that genre. That’s why we collect in a single • The Fatal Boots, by William Makepeace Thackeray • A Little Dinner At Timmins’s, by William Makepeace Thackeray • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll • Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures, by Douglas Jerrold • Vice A Lesson to Fathers, by F. Anstey • The Diary of a Nobody, by George and Weedon Grossmith