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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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The Hearing Trumpet
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The Horse's Mouth
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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The Case of the Gilded Fly
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Just William
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Diary of a Provincial Lady (E M Delafield)
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The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
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Martin Chuzzlewit (Charles Dickens)
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Jacques the Fatalist (Denis Diderot)
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A Fairy Tale of New York
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