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Comedy (Part 1 of 'Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read')

"Comedy is not humour. You shouldn't expect to be laughing all the way through these novels. Sometimes you will be, but at other times you will be crying. Every comic, it is said, wants to play Hamlet, and many comic novelists — Evelyn Waugh, archetypally — have a serious purpose. The world's hypocrisies and deceptions are targets that must be attacked, comedy the literary weapon of choice. Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire."
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Lucky Jim (Jim Dixon)
Lucky Jim (Jim Dixon)
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Money
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The Information
The Information
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The Bottle Factory Outing
The Bottle Factory Outing
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According to Queeney
According to Queeney
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Flaubert's Parrot (Julian Barnes)
Flaubert's Parrot (Julian Barnes)
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
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Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Go
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Go
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Molloy
Molloy
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Zuleika Dobson (Max Beerbohm)
Zuleika Dobson (Max Beerbohm)
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The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March
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The Uncommon Reader
The Uncommon Reader
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Queen Lucia (Benson)
Queen Lucia (Benson)
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The Ascent of Rum Doodle
The Ascent of Rum Doodle
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A Good Man in Africa
A Good Man in Africa
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The History Man
The History Man
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No Bed for Bacon
No Bed for Bacon
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Illywhacker
Illywhacker
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A Season in Sinji
A Season in Sinji
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The Harpole Report
The Harpole Report
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The Hearing Trumpet
The Hearing Trumpet
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Mister Johnson
Mister Johnson
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The Horse's Mouth
The Horse's Mouth
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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The Case of the Gilded Fly
The Case of the Gilded Fly
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Just William
Just William
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Diary of a Provincial Lady (E M Delafield)
Diary of a Provincial Lady (E M Delafield)
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Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
Slouching Towards Kalamazoo
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The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Martin Chuzzlewit
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Jacques the Fatalist
Jacques the Fatalist
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A Fairy Tale of New York
A Fairy Tale of New York
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The Commitments (Roddy Doyle)
The Commitments (Roddy Doyle)
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Ennui; Or, Memoirs of the Earl of Glenthorn
Ennui; Or, Memoirs of the Earl of Glenthorn
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Cheese
Cheese
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Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
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Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones
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Caprice
Caprice
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Bouvard and Pécuchet
Bouvard and Pécuchet
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