"A brilliant and breathless performance…vintage Burgess… The whole performance stuns." – The Boston Globe
"Readers will howl with laughter – a wickedly amusing book." – The Atlantic Monthly
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Reginald's Record...
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of...
Европейская старинная литература , Юмористическая проза
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son...
The Ethics of...
Originally published on October 5th of 1905, it was a return to the school stories which he departed briefly for his humorous children’s history of William Tell. Wodehouse creates a public school this time, in the form of Eckleton, with most of...
The American...
Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Юмористическая проза
Dwarf Rapes Nun; Flees in UFO: A Novel of Journalism
The staff of “The Capital Register and Press,” a staid, midwestern newspaper, is alarmed by the new owner’s attempts to sensationalize the paper’s format, but even more alarming are the management’s covert plans for blackmail, kidnapping,...
Practical Secret...
Other Stories of the Four Million: A Madison Square Arabian Night; The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball; The Pendulum; Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen; The Assessor of Success; The Buyer from Cactus City; The Badge of Policeman O'Roon; Brickdust Row;...