| Ali Ben Abd |
| Edmond About |
| Abraham a Sancta Clara (Ulrich Megerle) |
| Abu-Ishak |
| George Ade |
| Æsop |
| Pedro Antonio de Alarcón |
| Leopoldo Alas |
| Baltasar del Alcázar |
| Louisa May Alcott |
| William Livingston Alden |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| American College Humor |
| Ananzi (Spider) Stories |
| Hans Christian Andersen |
| Cecco Angiolieri |
| Anonymous |
| Anonymous |
| Anonymous (Bohemian) |
| Anonymous (French 15th Century) |
| Anonymous (Spanish: 18th Century) |
| Anonymous (Time of George I) |
| Apuleius |
| Arabian Riddle |
| John Arbuthnot |
| Lodovico Ariosto |
| Aristophanes |
| E. Arnal |
| Matthew Arnold |
| Émile Augier and Jules Sandeau |
| Jane Austen |
| William Edmondstoune Aytoun |
| William Edmondstoune Aytoun and Sir Theodore Martin |
| Francis Bacon |
| Josephine Daskam Bacon |
| James Montgomery Bailey |
| Li Bai |
| Kiokutei Bakin |
| Alexander Balázs |
| Joseph Glover Baldwin |
| Harlan Hoge Ballard |
| Honoré de Balzac |
| Matteo Bandello |
| Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) |
| Bar-Hebraeus (Abu’l-Faraj Gregorius) |
| J. M. Barrie |
| Lord Beaconsfield |
| Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
| Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
| Pierre Jean de Béranger |
| Árpád Berczik |
| Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Francesco Berni |
| Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) |
| Giovanni Boccaccio |
| Bohemian Traditional Legend |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux |
| George Borrow |
| Edmé Boursault |
| Manuel Bretón de los Herreros |
| David Augustin de Brueys and Jean Palaprat |
| William Cullen Bryant |
| Arnold Weruméus Buning |
| Henry Cuyler Bunner |
| Robert Jones Burdette |
| Gottfried August Bürger |
| Gelett Burgess |
| Francis Cowley Burnand |
| Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d’Arblay) |
| Robert Burns |
| Wilhelm Busch |
| Samuel Butler |
| William Allen Butler |
| Lord Byron |
| Pedro Calderón de la Barca |
| Charles Stuart Calverley |
| George Canning |
| Henry Carey |
| Henry Guy Carleton |
| Thomas Carlyle |
| Charles Edward Carryl |
| Guy Wetmore Carryl |
| Enrico Castelnuovo |
| Jacob Cats |
| Catullus |
| Benvenuto Cellini |
| Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| Adelbert von Chamisso |
| Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Anton Chekhov |
| Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield |
| Chinese Popular Novel |
| Chinese Proverbs |
| Charles Churchill |
| Matthias Claudius |
| William Cobbett |
| Confucius |
| William Congreve |
| Edward Copleston |
| François Coppée |
| Abraham Cowley |
| Hannah Cowley |
| William Cowper |
| Frederick Swartwout Cozzens |
| Georgiana Marion Craik |
| George William Curtis |
| Dalmation Traditional Legend |
| Alphonse Daudet |
| Denis Davidov |
| Sam Post Davis |
| Holman Francis Day |
| Edmondo De Amicis |
| Daniel Defoe |
| Thomas Dekker |
| Jacques Delille |
| Giovanni Della Casa |
| Chauncey Mitchell Depew |
| Thomas De Quincey |
| George Horatio Derby |
| Marc-Antoine Désaugiers |
| Eustache Deschamps |
| Charles Dibdin |
| Charles Dickens |
| Denis Diderot |
| Mary Mapes Dodge |
| Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge (John Carver) |
| Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) |
| Do-Pyazah |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Doun de Laverne |
| Gustave Droz |
| John Dryden |
| Alexandre Dumas |
| Finley Peter Dunne |
| Jehan du Pontalais |
| Maria Edgeworth |
| George Eliot (Mary Ann Cross) |
| Desiderius Erasmus |
| Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian |
| Eulenspiegel’s Pranks |
| Paolo Ferrari |
| Mirza Fet-Ali |
| Eugene Field |
| Henry Fielding |
| James Thomas Fields |
| Firdausi |
| Antonio Ribot y Fontseré |
| Samuel Foote |
| James L. Ford |
| Simeon Ford |
| Sam Walter Foss |
| Anatole France |
| Benjamin Franklin |
| Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman |
| Gustav Freytag |
| Isaac Kahn Friedman |
| Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni |
| Ludwig Fulda |
| David Garrick |
| Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Théophile Gautier |
| Christian Fürchtegott Gellert |
| German Students’ Songs |
| Antonio Ghislanzoni |
| William Schwenck Gilbert |
| Strickland W. Gillilan |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Nikolai Gogol |
| Carlo Goldoni |
| Oliver Goldsmith |
| Luis de Góngora y Argote |
| Maksim Gorky |
| Carlo Gozzi |
| Thomas Gray |
| The Greek Anthology |
| Albert Gorton Greene |
| Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset |
| Aleksander Griboyedov |
| Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen |
| Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm |
| Thomas Anstey Guthrie (F. Anstey) |
| Gyp (Madame de Martel) |
| H. Rider Haggard |
| Haitian Popular Sayings |
| Edward Everett Hale |
| Ludovic Halévy |
| Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck |
| Charles Graham Halpine |
| Sir John Harington |
| Joel Chandler Harris |
| Bret Harte |
| Wilhelm Hauff |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| John Hay |
| Alfred Hedenstierna (Sigurd) |
| Heinrich Heine |
| Oliver Herford |
| George Vere Hobart |
| Ludvig Holberg |
| Marietta Holley |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Homer |
| Thomas Hood |
| Theodore Hook |
| Johnson J. Hooper |
| Anthony Hope |
| Francis Hopkinson |
| Horace |
| William Dean Howells |
| Thomas Hughes |
| Victor Hugo |
| Hurtado de Mendoza |
| Henrik Ibsen |
| Tomás de Iriarte |
| Irish Bulls |
| Washington Irving |
| Japanese Popular Farce |
| Jean Paul (J. P. F. Richter) |
| Jerome K. Jerome |
| Douglas William Jerrold |
| Sarah Orne Jewett |
| Samuel Johnson |
| Mór Jókai |
| Ben Jonson |
| Juvenal |
| Kalidasa |
| Jarvis Keiley |
| Andrew V. Kelley (Parmenas Mix) |
| Omar Khayyám |
| Ivan Khemnitser |
| Ben King |
| Charles Kingsley |
| Rudyard Kipling |
| Heinrich von Kleist |
| Charles Paul de Kock |
| August Kopisch |
| Korean Legendary Tale |
| Karl Arnold Kortum |
| August von Kotzebue |
| William J. Kountz, Jr. |
| Ivan Krylov |
| Eugène Labiche |
| Eugène Labiche and Édouard Martin |
| Jean de La Bruyère |
| Jean de La Fontaine |
| Charles Lamb |
| Melville De Lancey Landon (Eli Perkins) |
| Andrew Lang |
| George Thomas Lanigan |
| François, duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| Mariano José de Larra |
| Latvian Popular Tales |
| Stephen Leacock |
| Charles Godfrey Leland |
| Giacomo Leopardi |
| Alain René Lesage |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| Charles Lever |
| Charles Bertrand Lewis (M Quad) |
| Jonas Lie |
| John Gibson Lockhart |
| Augustus Baldwin Longstreet |
| George Horace Lorimer |
| Samuel Lover |
| James Russell Lowell |
| Lucian |
| Fitz Hugh Ludlow |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis |
| George, Lord Lyttelton |
| Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay |
| William Maginn |
| Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) |
| William Hurrell Mallock |
| Alessandro Manzoni |
| Danforth Marble |
| Marguerite de Navarre |
| Pierre de Marivaux |
| Frederick Marryat |
| Martial |
| Edward Sandford Martin |
| Andrew Marvell |
| Mashdud |
| Guy de Maupassant |
| William Henry McElroy |
| Yuan Mei |
| Catulle Mendès |
| George Meredith |
| James Merrick |
| Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller |
| John Milton |
| Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel) |
| Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
| Thomas Moore |
| José Morell |
| Sir Thomas More |
| Joshua S. Morris |
| John Maddison Morton |
| Gustav von Moser |
| Ed Mott |
| Wilhelm Müller |
| Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker) |
| Richard Kendall Munkittrick |
| Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock) |
| Henri Murger |
| Alfred de Musset |
| Nabegat Ben Jaid |
| Nasir-Ed-Din |
| Nikolay Nekrasov |
| Jan Neruda |
| Robert Henry Newell |
| Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz |
| Alberto Nota |
| Nursery Rhymes |
| Edgar Wilson (Bill) Nye |
| Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger |
| Eva L. Ogden |
| The Old Testament |
| Richard O’Monroy (J. de Saint Geniès) |
| Max O’Rell |
| Édouard Pailleron |
| Albert Bigelow Paine |
| William Pitt Palmer |
| Charles Henry Parkhurst |
| Blaise Pascal |
| James Kirke Paulding |
| James Payn |
| Thomas Love Peacock |
| George Wilbur Peck |
| Samuel Pepys |
| Thomas Percy |
| Persius |
| Petronius |
| John Philips |
| Alexis Piron |
| Plautus |
| Maria Louise Pool |
| Alexander Pope |
| Ignaty Potapenko |
| Eduard Pötzl |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed |
| Florence E. Pratt |
| Frances Lee Pratt |
| David Law Proudfit |
| Luigi Pulci |
| Philippe Quinault |
| Edmund Quincy |
| Wilhelm Raabe (Jacob Corvinus) |
| François Rabelais |
| Viktor Rákosi (Sipulus) |
| Erich Raspe |
| Charles Reade |
| Francesco Redi |
| Jean-François Regnard |
| Agnes Repplier |
| Fritz Reuter |
| William Barnes Rhodes |
| Albert Gallatin Riddle |
| James Whitcomb Riley |
| Harrison Robertson |
| Thomas William Robertson |
| James Jeffrey Roche |
| Edmond Rostand |
| Friedrich Rückert |
| Jalal ad-Din Rumi |
| Irwin Russell |
| Russian Proverbs |
| Russian Traditional Fairy Tale |
| Rustico di Filippo |
| Rutebeuf |
| Sadi |
| Masuccio Salernitano |
| Mikhail Saltykov (Shchedrin) |
| James Gardner Sanderson |
| Robert Charles Sands |
| Moritz Gottlieb Saphir |
| John Godfrey Saxe |
| Paul Scarron |
| Joseph Viktor von Scheffel |
| The Schildburghers |
| Friedrich von Schiller |
| Friedrich August Schultze (Friedrich Laun) |
| Sir Walter Scott |
| Serbian Popular Poems |
| William Shakespeare |
| Vishnu Sharma (Pilpay) |
| George Bernard Shaw |
| Frederick William Shelton |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| Frank Dempster Sherman |
| Murasaki Shikibu |
| Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber |
| Sir Philip Sidney |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz |
| Edward Rowland Sill |
| John Skelton |
| Joseph Bert Smiley |
| Francis Hopkinson Smith |
| Marion Couthouy Smith |
| Seba Smith |
| Sol Smith |
| Sydney Smith |
| Tobias George Smollett |
| Edith Anna Somerville and Violet Florence Martin (Martin Ross) |
| Robert Southey |
| The Spectator and The Tatler |
| Alaric Bertrand Start |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| Laurence Sterne |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Julius Stinde |
| Frank Richard Stockton |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Lionel Strachey |
| August Strindberg |
| Sir John Suckling |
| Jonathan Swift |
| Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) |
| Sayings from the Talmud |
| Bayard Taylor |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Terence |
| William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Ernest Lawrence Thayer |
| Theophrastus |
| William Tappan Thompson |
| The Thousand and One Nights |
| Hester Lynch Thrale |
| Edward Waterman Townsend |
| Frances Milton Trollope |
| John Townsend Trowbridge |
| Ivan Turgenev |
| Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) |
| Chwang Tze |
| Nicholas Udall |
| Armando Palacio Valdés |
| Justus van Maurik |
| Marquis de Vauvenargues |
| Lope de Vega |
| George Sylvester Viereck |
| Juan Martínez Villergas |
| George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham |
| Auguste comte de Villiers de L’Isle Adam |
| François Villon |
| Vincent Voiture |
| Voltaire |
| Katharine Kent Child Walker |
| Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) |
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward |
| Charles Dudley Warner |
| John Watson (Ian Maclaren) |
| Karl Julius Weber |
| Tomasz Kajetan Wegierski |
| Carolyn Wells |
| Paul West |
| Richard Whately |
| Richard Grant White |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis |
| John Wilson (Christopher North) |
| William Wycherley |
| Caliph Yazid I |
| Yorkshire Proverbs |
| Sung Yu |
| Émile Zola |
| Heinrich Zschokke |
