The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook

This is a collection of the greatest satirical works and humoristic writings from Theodor Hook. The book includes the extensive biography of this great comic writer. Hook (1788 - 1841) was a popular Englishman of letters, a composer, and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He was most famous for his practical jokes.