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Christmas Eve with Mr. Pickwick Charles Dickens · 1897 · 77p · ≈ 2h · Challenging In tribute to the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, Delphi Classics is pleased to introduce Dickensiana, a first of its kind e-compilation of period accounts of Dickens’s life and works, rare 19th and early 20th century books and articles about Dickens and Dickensian locales, reminiscences by family, friends and colleagues, tribute poems, parodies, satires and sequels based on his… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

FURTHER UNDER THE DUVET Marian Keyes · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Slide Further Under the Duvet, get yourself comfortable and let Marian take you places you've never been before ...Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and Toblerones.… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Some notes on lifemanship, with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship Stephen Potter · 1950 · 126p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Lifemanship, we are assured, was devised in response to a huge public demand, somewhat unexpressed. The way of life adopted by Lifemen is as hard to define as the sound of one hand clapping, but this has not deterred the founder of the Lifemanship Association, Station Road, Yeovil (Somerset, England), from formulating a course of lectures on a vital issue of our times. // With the help of… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

The unadulterated cat Terry Pratchett · 1989 · ★ 3.8 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Terry Pratchett's funny and very British look at the relationship between humans and cats. Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Anguished English Richard Lederer · 1987 · ★ 3.8 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate For years wordsmith and punster Richard Lederer has charmed and delighted fans with his bestselling "Anguished English" series. In his funniest book yet, readers will again cherish the author's latest chronicle of the goofs and gaffes and fluffs and flubs of our anguished language. And the best part? Everything in here actually occurred! Nothing has been made up! Bloopers from foreign restaurants… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

One-Upmanship Stephen Potter · 1952 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where ones gain is the others loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individuals, economic and social groups, etc. The rivalry can be over attainment of any exclusive goal, including recognition. Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1880 · ★ 3.8 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. The essays cover a range of topics from "On Being in Love" to "On Furnished Apartments" to "On Getting on in the World". Jerome established himself as one of England's favorite wits with his comic novel Three Men in a Boat. Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

In-laws and outlaws C. Northcote Parkinson · 1962 · ★ 3.7 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Perfect Behavior Donald Ogden Stewart · 1922 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Das NEINhorn Marc-Uwe Kling · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Im Herzwald kommt ein kleines, schnickeldischnuckeliges Einhorn zur Welt. Aber obwohl alle ganz lilalieb zu ihm sind und es ständig mit gezuckertem Glücksklee füttern, benimmt sich das Tierchen ganz und gar nicht einhornmäßig. Es sagt einfach immer Nein, sodass seine Familie es bald nur noch NEINhorn nennt. Eines Tages bricht das NEINhorn aus seiner Zuckerwattewelt aus. Es trifft einen… Shares: Humor

Stage-land Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1889 · 52p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of Stage Land. Dedicated to that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, the earnest student of drama. A series of short satirical essays on the conventions and cliches of theater. The stage hero heroine villain adventuress lawyer etc. I enjoyed this a lot particularly… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Modern mythology Andrew Lang · 1897 · 169p · ≈ 5h · Challenging xxiv p., 1 l., 212 p. 23 cm. Shares: Mythology

Myth and ritual in Christianity Alan Watts · 1953 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A penetrating and wide-ranging study of mythological processes and their particular manifestation in Christian religion, Alan Watt's Myth and Ritual in Christianity is widely considered a classic. Using the lens of the "doctrine of mystical tradition", Watts explores the development of church doctrine in relation to the procession of seasons and finds, contrary to many contemporary critics, that… Shares: Mythology

World mythology Donna Rosenberg · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Shares: Mythology

Chimera John Barth · 1972 · ★ 3.7 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Barth retells the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, and Bellerophon from varying perspectives, examining the myths' relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. Dunyazade, Scheherazade's kid sister, holds the destiny of herself and the prince who holds her captive. Perseus, the demigod who slew the Gorgon Medusa, finds himself at forty… Shares: Mythology

Eros Teri Temple · 2012 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate None (Hesiod)Hesiod, Theogony https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D104 116–122] states that Gaia, Tartarus and Eros come after Chaos, but this does not necessarily mean that they are the offspring of Chaos. Gantz, pp.… Shares: Mythology

Comparative mythology F. Max Müller · 1909 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Comparative mythology is the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics.Littleton, p. 32 Comparative mythology has served a variety of academic purposes. For example, scholars have used the relationships between different myths to trace the development of religions and cultures, to propose common origins for myths from different… Shares: Mythology

Hephaestus Teri Temple · 2012 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Hephaestus ( , ; eight spellings; ) is the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, and volcanoes.Walter Burkert, Greek Religion 1985: III.2.ii; see coverage of Lemnos-based traditions and legends at Mythic Lemnos In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Hera, either on her own or by her husband Zeus. He was cast off Mount Olympus… Shares: Mythology

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