A newspaper committed to blackmail and mud slinging, rather than reporting the news.
A paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of...
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A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem.
In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth’s first and greatest...
Юмористические...
Кое-кто из читателей нашел в романе «исторические неточности». Искренние соболезнования им. Ибо нет тут «исторических неточностей». И...
Другие юмористические, История
omme quoi Napoléon n'a jamais existé... = Почему Наполеона никогда не было
J.-B. Péres, bibliothécaire de la Ville d'Agen, démontra en 1827 que Napoléon n'avait jamais existé. En fait il démontra qu'à force d'acharnement et de suspicion fanatique, on peut toujours trouver des...
Малые литературные формы прозы, Юмористическая проза
On Masturbation: Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism
One evening in Paris in 1879, The Stomach Club, a society of American writers and artists, gathered to drink well, to eat a good dinner and hear an address by Mark Twain. He was among friends and, according to the custom of the club, he delivered a...
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and vignettes by A. A. Milne originally published in Punch. Stories included are; The Heir, Winter Sport, A Baker’s Dozen, Getting Married, Home Affairs, Other People’s Houses, Burlesques, Merely...
“This is an odd book” or so states the author in 1917 for his first introduction. A fairytale with seven league boots, a princess, an enchantment, and the Countess Belvane. As Milne wrote in a later introduction: “But, as you see, I am still...
‘Brilliantly funny … the best satire of our contemporary nightmare that you will ever see, and very possibly the last’ Alan Moore
It’s 2019 and America is ruled over by a billionaire reality TV star. Its media is owned by a transnational...
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války je čtyřdílný humoristický román českého spisovatele Jaroslava Haška přeložený do 54 jazyků,...