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The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker, Marion Meade
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.For this new twenty-first-century edition, devoted admirers can be sure to find their favorite verse and stories. But a variety of fresh material has also been added to create a fuller, more authentic picture of her life's work... -
![What Ho! The Best of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse]()
What Ho! The Best of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPublished to mark the 25th anniversary of PG Wodehouse's death, this is the first major new selection of his work to be published for a generation. This anthology of stories, novel-extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems gives a fresh angle on the twentieth century's greatest humourist. In his introduction, Stephen Fry writes: "What a very, very lucky person you are... -
![The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll]()
The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe New York Times Book Review praised Brendan O'Carroll's first novel, The Mammy, as "Cheerful...as unpretentious and satisfying as a home-cooked meal...with a delicious dessert of an ending... -
![Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas And Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson]()
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas And Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDr. Thompson made the list of inspirational scribes when I polled in a recent writing workshop, and why not? Back in a spiffy Modern Library edition, replete with additional essays, I find in this iconographic work that HST both invoked--and provoked--an era that was not so much the '60s proper, but rather the mean, shadow-filled death of that time, which is still playing out... -
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![The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker]()
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of her day, notorious as the hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for stinging repartee and endlessly quotable one-liners... -
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![Turnabout: A Regency Romance inspired by P&P by Sydney Salier]()
Turnabout: A Regency Romance inspired by P&P by Sydney Salier
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if a wealthy aunt ensured that Mrs Bennet and her daughters had a secure future and a proper education?What if Darcy arrived at Netherfield a month after the Bingleys – just in time for the assembly and his famous insult?What if Mr Bennet was just a little more engaged and the inhabitants of Meryton a little less impressed with the visitors – resulting in the whole party getting kicked out... -
![A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert]()
A Pelican at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse, Nigel Lambert
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, sank back in his chair, looking like the good old man in a Victorian melodrama whose mortgage the villain had just foreclosed. He felt the absence of that gentle glow which customarily accompanied the departure of one of his sisters. Lord Emsworth needed Galahad... -
![MYTH-Interpretations: The Worlds of Robert Asprin by Robert Lynn Asprin]()
MYTH-Interpretations: The Worlds of Robert Asprin by Robert Lynn Asprin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings19 misadventures. Human apprentice Skeeve, powerless blue demon Pervect magician Aahz, dragon baby Gleep travel through strange worlds in pursuit of wealth, glory, and good-times -- but succeed mostly in getting into one myth-filled mess after another. Includes novelette "The Cold Cash War," and unpublished stories... -
![Terry Pratchett by Andrew M. Butler]()
Terry Pratchett by Andrew M. Butler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more... -
![Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan]()
Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsConcerns a writer trying to cope with the break-up of a relationship. Trying to escape his misery, he begins a story about a sombrero that falls out of the sky and lands in a small town. Unable to concentrate he throws the pages in the bin, and that's when it starts to take on a life of its own... -
![Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Psmith, Journalist by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe story begins with Psmith accompanying his fellow Cambridge student Mike to New York on a cricketing tour. Through high spirits and force of personality, Psmith takes charge of a minor periodical, and becomes imbroiled in a scandal involving slum landlords, boxers and gangsters - the story displays a strong social conscience, rare in Wodehouse's generally light-hearted works... -
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Enter Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn early Wodehouse novel, this is both a sporting story and a tale of friendship between two boys at boarding school. Mike (introduced in Mike at Wrykyn) is a seriously good cricketer who forms an unlikely alliance with old Etonian Psmith ('the P is silent') after they both find themselves fish out of water at a new school, Sedleigh... -
![The Miseducation Years by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard]()
The Miseducation Years by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Paul Howard
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSo there I was, roysh, putting the 'in' in 'in crowd', hanging out, pick of the babes, bills from the old pair to fund the lifestyle I, like, totally deserve. But being a schools rugby legend has its downsides, roysh, like all the total knobs wanting to chill in your, like, reflected glory, and the bunny-boilers who decide they want to be with me and won't take, like, no for an answer... -
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![The Brentford Chain-Store Massacre by Robert Rankin]()
The Brentford Chain-Store Massacre by Robert Rankin
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere is nothing more powerful than a bad idea whose time has come. And there can be few ideas less bad or more potentially apocalyptic than that hatched by genetic scientist Dr. Stephen Malone. Using DNA strands extracted from the dried blood on the Turin Shroud, Dr. Malone is cloning Jesus... -
![Silentium! by Wolf Haas]()
Silentium! by Wolf Haas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGalardonada con el Premio a la mejor Novela Policiaca en lengua alemana del año 2000 El silencio es la divisa del Marianum, un internado masculino religioso del que la ciudad de Salzburgo está muy orgullosa... -
![The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni]()
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes... -
![Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin]()
Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls by Robert Rankin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt has always been John Omally's secret ambition to become a rock star. In his youth he mastered air guitar and wardrobe-mirror posing, but he lacked that certain something. Talent. But at last an opportunity has arisen for John to get into 'The Industry'. A band called Gandhi's Hairdryer are looking for a manager, so all John has to do is persuade them that he is the new Brian Epstein... -
![Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins]()
Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMade into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written... -
![Open Sesame by Tom Holt]()
Open Sesame by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere was something wrong! Just as the boiling water was about to be poured on his head and the man with the red book appeared and his life flashed before his eyes, Akram the Terrible, the most feared thief in Baghdad, knew this had happened before. Many times. And he was damned if he was going to let it happen again... -
![Roughing It by Mark Twain]()
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsRoughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. He wrote it during 1870–71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first book The Innocents Abroad (1869). This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad... -
![Herb 'n' Lorna by Eric Kraft]()
Herb 'n' Lorna by Eric Kraft
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the surface Herb and Lorna Piper are typically sunny 1950s American adults. Herbs sells Sudebakers to the citizens of Bebbington, a Long Island seaside town, and Lorna is his cheerfully coy and clever wife. Their story seems like an American small-town origins, Jazz Age romance, Depression trials, postwar prosperity... -
![4N1K by Büşra Yılmaz]()
4N1K by Büşra Yılmaz
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYaprak; küçükken, markette annesinden sürpriz yumurta istediği için bulgur reyonuna sıkıştırılıp çimdiklenenler, ilkokul önlüğünün altına eşofman giyip okula gidenler, yeşil silgisini diş izi yapanlar ve kırmızı kapaklı tüm dersler kitabının saman sayfalarını silerken yırtanlar kadar sıradan bir kız çocuğuyken; birlikte büyüdüğü dört çılgın erkek arkadaşı yüzünden akranlarından biraz farklı bir... -
![The Hearse You Came in On by Tim Cockey]()
The Hearse You Came in On by Tim Cockey
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIntroducing a clever and gripping first mystery novel featuring an unconventional undertaker -- who also happens to be one of Baltimore's most eligible and charming bachelors... -
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![A Crackup at the Race Riots by Harmony Korine]()
A Crackup at the Race Riots by Harmony Korine
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe original Ritalin kid, Harmony Korine burst on the scene with Kids, a film so gritty and unsettling in its depiction of teen life that it was slapped with an NC-17 rating and banned in some theaters across the country... -
![Tauben, Die Den Mambo Tanzen by C.D. Payne]()
Tauben, Die Den Mambo Tanzen by C.D. Payne
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Jonathan Livingston Seagull as imagined by the Marx brothers." That's one take on Frisco Pigeon Mambo, an uproarious new comic novel by C.D. Payne, author of the cult classic Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp.When a flock of alcohol and tobacco addicted lab pigeons are liberated in San Francisco, our feathered heroes turn the whole city topsy-turvy... -
![Jodía Pavía (1525): Un relato by Arturo Pérez-Reverte]()
Jodía Pavía (1525): Un relato by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDesde su cárcel madrileña, en una carta a su amante Mimí la Garce, el rey Francisco I de Francia rememora la batalla en que fue derrotado y preso en Italia por las tropas de Carlos V. Un relato irreverente y muy divertido sobre la Batalla de Pavía de 1525. «Querida Mimí, mon amour: Unas veces se pierde y otras se deja de ganar. Aquí me tienes, voilá, de turista forzoso en Madrid... -
![Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish]()
Alphabetical Africa by Walter Abish
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlphabetical Africa, Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them... -
![If You're Reading This, I'm Already Dead by Andrew Nicoll]()
If You're Reading This, I'm Already Dead by Andrew Nicoll
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'I want people to know how Otto Witte, acrobat of Hamburg, became the crowned king of Albania.' Otto Witte is an old man. The Allies are raining bombs on his city and, having narrowly escaped death, he has come home to his little caravan to drink what remains of his coffee (dust) and wait for the inevitable... -
![Luciérnaga by Natalia Litvinova]()
Luciérnaga by Natalia Litvinova
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLa narradora de esta historia nace a pocos kilómetros de Chernóbil el año que explota la central nuclear y crece en un país atravesado por la confusión y la miseria... -
![Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin]()
Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith Cruel Shoes, Steve Martin proves that his humor more than translates to the written page; it excels there. Since he has always written his own material, books are a natural medium for Steve's comic genius. And his extravagant wit shines brightly indeed in this rollicking collection of short fabulous pieces... -
![Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn]()
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis tale is set in the crossword and nature-notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street... -
![Lefty: Being the tale of Cross-Eyed Lefty of Tula and the Steel Flea by Nikolai Leskov, Javier Herrero]()
Lefty: Being the tale of Cross-Eyed Lefty of Tula and the Steel Flea by Nikolai Leskov, Javier Herrero
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnglishOriginal... -
![The Impostures Of Scapin by Molière]()
The Impostures Of Scapin by Molière
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Impostures of Scapin is a 3-act comedy in prose.In his fathers' absence, Octave has secretly married Hyacinthe, the woman he loves, but on his return his father has decided to marry him to an unkown. As to Leander it is Zerbinette he loves, but his father has also decided otherwise... -
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![A Prefect's Uncle by P.G. Wodehouse]()
A Prefect's Uncle by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMarriott walked into the senior day-room and finding no one there hurled his portmanteau down on the table with a bang. The noise brought William into the room. William was attached to Leicester's House Beckford College as a mixture of butler and bootboy... -
![Screwball by Simon Rich, Beck Bennett]()
Screwball by Simon Rich, Beck Bennett
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSNL’s Beck Bennett performs Screwball, a wildly funny and wistful take on Babe Ruth’s little-known stint in the minor leagues, from one of America’s funniest writers, Simon Rich. Before he was “Babe” or “The Sultan of Swat” or “The Great Bambino”, George Herman Ruth was just another teenage misfit at St. Mary’s School for Boys...
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