Laughter an essay on the meaning of the comic

This work has been selected by scolars as being culturally important, and is part of civilization as we know it. The author outlines a general theory of art. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. The essay on Laughter originally appeared in a series of three articles in one of the leading magazines in France, the Revue de Paris. The book has been higly sucessful in France, where it is seventh edition. It has been translated into Russian. Polish and Swedish.