Mit seiner Schilderung einer vertrackten Bootsfahrt auf der Themse schuf Jerome K. Jerome 1889 einen der beliebtesten Klassiker britischen Humors. Sein scharfer, wenn auch wohlwollender Blick entlarvt die Tücken einer Freizeitkultur, die...
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,...
"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
"Resurrected by popular request… Enderby the...
Comedy: a fractured family’s dirty laundry is aired, soiled, stained, muddied, fumigated and declared a health hazard when their patriarch succumbs to barbecued neck bones laced with...