Razvedka
Автор:
НеизвестенЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-28Язык книги:
РусскийКол-во страниц:
5Юмористическая проза стр.6
Right Ho, Jeeves
Автор:
P. G. WodehouseДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
72
Description
Right Ho, Jeeves is the second novel to feature P. G. Wodehouse’s popular Bertie Wooster and Jeeves characters. Bertie, a member of the English upper class and one of the “idle rich,” tries his best to arrange relationships between two pairs of his friends. Though he means well, Bertie’s bumbling attempts wind up doing more harm than good (as usual), leaving it to his valet, Jeeves, to see if he can sort things out.
A smooth, easy, and often hilarious read, Right Ho, Jeeves is an excellent example of why Bertie Wooster and Jeeves have become such iconic literary...
Sartor Resartus
Автор:
Thomas CarlyleДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
81
Description
Sartor Resartus was a strange and new book when it was first published in 1833, and in many ways it remains a strange and new book today. The bulk of the novel takes the form of the a commentary on the life and works of the fictional Diogenes Teufelsdröckh, a sort of renaissance-man German philosopher who develops a “Philosophy of Clothes.” The commentary is composed by a fictional English commentator, known only as the “Editor”; the Editor claims to have translated many of Teufelsdröckh’s ideas and quotes from German. As the commentary progresses, the Editor receives a bag of paper scraps on which are written various autobiographical fragments from Teufelsdröckh’s life. The Editor’s attempts to organize and interpret these...
Schokolade auf Reisen. 11 vergnugliche Geschichten fur jung und alt.
Автор:
Kishon EphraimЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-09-27Язык книги:
DeutschКол-во страниц:
8
Kishon fur Kinder, aber nicht nur fur sie: Der weltberuhmte Satiriker erzahlt hier elf urkomische Geschichten, die Friedrich Kohlsaat mit frechem Strich illustriert hat. Elf Geschichten zum Vor- und Selberlesen, mit kostlichen Pointen, die Kishons ungezahlte Fans entzucken...
School Stories
Автор:
P. G. WodehouseДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
72
Description
School Stories is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that feature the trials, tribulations and adventures of the denizens of the turn-of-the-century English boarding school.
First published in schoolboy magazines starting in 1901, the stories originally appeared in publications like The Captain and Public School Magazine. Some were also later collected into books. These stories, written more than a decade before he moved on to his more famous characters like Jeeves and Wooster, represent Wodehouse’s first magazine sales and showcase his early career. While some of these stories are definitely of a moment, they’re...
Seventy-Two Virgins
Автор:
Johnson BorisЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-26Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
70
Review ‘A hectic comedy thriller… a rip-roaring knockabout farce… refreshingly unpompous, faintly dishevelled and often very funny.’ Mail on Sunday ‘At the centre of his first novel, a light comedy, is a terrorist plot of frightening ingenuity… the comedy is reminiscent of Tom Sharpe.’ Sunday Times ‘Johnson scores in his comic handling of those most sensitive issues… he succeeds in being charming and sincere… Boris Johnson has written a witty page-turner.’ Observer ‘Among the hilarious scenes of events and the wonderful dialogue which keeps the story moving at a cracking pace, Johnson uncovers some home truths… I can give no higher praise to this book than to say that I lapped it up at a single uproarious...
Short Fiction
Автор:
P. G. WodehouseДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
205
Description
P. G. Wodehouse was an incredibly prolific writer who sold short stories to publications around the world throughout his career. The settings of his stories range from the casinos of Monte Carlo to the dance halls of New York, often taking detours into rural English life, where we follow his wide variety of distinctive characters and their trials, tribulations and follies.
The stories in this volume consist of most of what is available in U.S. public domain, with the exception of some stories which were never anthologized, and stories that are collected in themed volumes (Jeeves Stories, ...
Short Fiction
Автор:
Edgar Allan PoeЖанр:
Приключения: Прочее;Юмористическая проза;Ужасы и Мистика;Триллеры;Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;Короткие любовные романы;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
319
Description
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the primary figures of American nineteenth-century literature. His writing was heavily influenced by Romanticism ideals of emotion and feeling, and although mostly known for his Gothic-tinged horror, his tales jump between many different genres, including science-fiction, satire, humor, mystery, and even early detective fiction.
Poe mostly wrote short stories and poems, published in magazines and periodicals like the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham’s Magazine, although he also turned his hand to essays and novels (including ...
Short Fiction
Автор:
Edgar Allan PoeЖанр:
Приключения: Прочее;Юмористическая проза;Ужасы и Мистика;Триллеры;Юмористическая проза;Научная фантастика;Короткие любовные романы;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
319
Description
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the primary figures of American nineteenth-century literature. His writing was heavily influenced by Romanticism ideals of emotion and feeling, and although mostly known for his Gothic-tinged horror, his tales jump between many different genres, including science-fiction, satire, humor, mystery, and even early detective fiction.
Poe mostly wrote short stories and poems, published in magazines and periodicals like the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham’s Magazine, although he also turned his hand to essays and novels (including ...
Something New
Автор:
P. G. WodehouseДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
73
Description
Something New is the first novel of what became known as the “Blandings Castle Saga” by P. G. Wodehouse and was published in the United States in 1915. Two Americans, Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, endeavor to retrieve a scarab pilfered from an American millionaire by the absent-minded Lord Emsworth. Marson and Valentine soon find themselves impersonating servants while evading the Efficient Baxter.
The story was originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post as Something Fresh in 1915. It introduced who would become the recurring characters of Blandings Castle: Lord Emsworth, Freddie Threepwood, Rupert Baxter, and Sebastian...
Story of the Bad Little Boy
Автор:
Twain MarkЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-09-29Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
1
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Автор:
Stephen LeacockДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
60
Description
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s humourous and affectionate account of small-town life in the fictional town of Mariposa. Written in 1912, it is drawn from his experiences living in Orillia, Ontario.
The book is a series of funny and satirical anecdotes that illustrate the inner workings of life in Mariposa—from business to politics to steamboat disasters. The town is populated by many archetypal characters including the shrewd businessman Mr. Smith, the lovelorn bank teller Mr. Pupkin, and the mathematically challenged Rev. Mr. Drone.
During his lifetime, Stephen Leacock was very popular...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Автор:
Stephen LeacockДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
60
Description
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s humourous and affectionate account of small-town life in the fictional town of Mariposa. Written in 1912, it is drawn from his experiences living in Orillia, Ontario.
The book is a series of funny and satirical anecdotes that illustrate the inner workings of life in Mariposa—from business to politics to steamboat disasters. The town is populated by many archetypal characters including the shrewd businessman Mr. Smith, the lovelorn bank teller Mr. Pupkin, and the mathematically challenged Rev. Mr. Drone.
During his lifetime, Stephen Leacock was very popular...
SURGEON AT ARMS
Автор:
Gordon RichardЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-27Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
46
Description
The first three acts of Molière’s Tartuffe were first performed for Louis XIV in 1664, but the play was almost immediately suppressed—not because the King disliked it, but because the church resented the insinuation that the pious were frauds. After several different versions were written and performed privately, Tartuffe was eventually published in its final five-act form in 1669.
A comic tale of man taken in by a sanctimonious scoundrel, the characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among some of the great classical theater roles. As the family strives to convince the patriarch that Tartuffe is a religious fraud, the play ultimately focuses on...
Thank You, Jeeves
Автор:
Wodehouse P.G.Жанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
54
When Bertie insists upon playing the banjolele, to the distress of his neighbors and his impeccable valet Jeeves, Jeeves is forced to take drastic action. He leaves B.'s service. But Bertie is entirely dedicated to his art, and decides to rent one of his friend Lord Chuffnell's cottages so as to pursue his banjolele studies away from the madding (and maddened) crowd... only to learn that Jeeves has taken employment as Chuffy's valet at Chuffnell Hall. Right-ho, then. There is the usual romantic imbroglio; a former fiancee of Bertie's, Pauline Stoker, enters the picture as Chuffy's guest while her father, the American millionaire J. Washburn Stoker, considers the purchase of Chuffnell Hall. Of course Pauline and Chuffy proceed to fall madly in love, and when they fall out, it's up to...
The Bro Code
Автор:
Stinson BarneyЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-11-29Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
23
Everyone's life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code. Historically a spoken tradition passed from one generation to the next, the official code of conduct for Bros appears here in its published form for the first time ever. By upholding the tenets of this sacred and legendary document, any dude can learn to achieve Bro-dom. For fans of 'How I Met Your...
The Complete Works of O. Henry
Автор:
Henry O.Жанр:
Юмористическая проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-09-27Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
692
O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. Collected in this book (Golgotha Press, 2010) is a giant anthology of his work, including the stories, some early verses and a few...
The Devil’s Dictionary
Автор:
Ambrose BierceЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Дата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
59
Description
“Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.”
Bierce’s groundbreaking Devil’s Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in this work, did not appear until an 1881 column published in the periodical The San Francisco Illustrated Wasp.
There were no publications of the complete glossary...
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Автор:
Samuel JohnsonЖанр:
Юмористическая проза;Дата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
39
Description
Rasselas is a fable-like story, more apologue than novel, written by Johnson in 1759 to help pay for the costs of his recently-deceased mother’s funeral. While the plot is basic and the characters are thin, the work is an important philosophical piece exploring whether or not humanity can attain happiness.
Rasselas, an Abyssinian prince, travels with his sister Nekayah, her handmaiden Pekuah, and the wise poet Imlac—a proxy for Johnson himself. Their exploration of happiness and the meaning of leading a happy life is a complex and subtle one, though the work ends with “nothing concluded.” Johnson leaves the reader to ponder: Can an individual ever...
