"A collection of first-person essays and humor pieces about one woman's attempt to make sense of the baffling, humiliating, and extremely annoying world around her"--

A collie undertakes a thousand-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate

Ten hilarious short stories for anyone who hates the holidays! The holiday season is one of laughter, fun, generosity, and time with friends and family ... or so it's supposed to be. But we all know that the holiday season can actually be absolutely depressing, no matter how hard we try. So from the wit of humorist Alex Bernstein comes this "miserable" collection of short stories based around Christmas and Hanukkah. Included are short stories, such...

This book was, intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is, regarded as a classic source of unintentional humor, as the given English translations are generally, completely incoherent. The humor appears to be a result of dictionary-aided literal translation, which causes many idiomatic expressions to be, translated wildly inappropriately. Mark Twain said of 'English as She Is Spoke' that "Nobody can add to the absurdity...

First published in 1895, 'Select Conversations with an Uncle' constitutes Wells' first literary publication in the form of a book. It comprises accounts of twelve fictional conversations with a witty uncle who has recently come back from South Africa, returning with some degree of affluence. It also contains two other conversations on aestheticism and physiognomy entitled 'A Misunderstood Artist' and 'The Man with a Nose' respectively. Contents include:...

Un livre d'artiste consacré aux enfants qui sommeillent en nous. Les grands-enfants est une collection d'anecdotes à propos d'adultes qui, d'une façon ou d'une autre, ne veulent pas grandir. C'est avec un réel plaisir que vous découvrirez les habitudes enfantines que de nombreux adultes ont conservées! EXTRAIT Isabelle 46 ans et David 44 ans font des concours de celui qui finira le plus vite son pot de glace.

Extrait: "Mes lecteurs ne seraient que très imparfaitement satisfaits, si, les introduisant de suite et sans aucuns préparatifs sur mon théâtre agreste, ainsi que dans tous les secrets de mon BELVÉDÈRE AÉRIEN, je ne les préparais d'avance à ces augustes mystères. Il en est de même de tous les plaisirs de la vie ; le prélude, ainsi que tous les détours enchanteurs par lesquels on arrive au cœur d'une jolie femme, composent la majeure...

Covers, cartoons, authors of pieces both longer and shorter, reflect current views of the feline subject in all its glory, and sometimes disgrace, as well as those of bygone days. Poets like Ted Hughes and Robert Graves sit alongside contributions from the magazine's former regular columnists--e.g., James Thurber's 1952 post-party tale "The Case of Dimity Ann" and E.B White's informative "How To Make a Cat Trap" (1930). Included in this generous collection...

Hard partying brothers Mike and Dave place an online ad to find the perfect dates for their sister's Hawaiian wedding. Hoping for a wild getaway, the boys instead find themselves outsmarted and out partied by the uncontrollable duo.