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Lady Cottington's Pocket Pressed Fairy Book Terry Jones · 1994 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Shares: Pictorial 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, English language, Humor

A precocious autobiography Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko · 1963 · ★ 3.8 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Moderate His life and philosophy. Shares: Alphabet, English language

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

The Gashlycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey · 1981 · ★ 4.1 · 60p · ≈ 2h · Moderate An alphabetical phantasmagoria in which a succession of infants meet dreadful ends. Shares: Alphabet, English language, 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

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

Simon's Cat Simon Tofield · 2009 · ★ 4.2 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Everybody knows a cat like Simon's. Shares: Pictorial English wit and humor, Humor

And now all this Walter Carruthers Sellar · 1932 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 1066 and All That turns English history into a brilliantly unreliable "memorable history," where invasions, kings, saints, and schoolbook facts are reduced to jokes, slogans, and absurdly tidy "Good Things." From Caesar and the painted Ancient Britons through Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, and the legendary Alfred the Cake and King Arthur, the book mocks the way the past survives as fragments of… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Bao xiao xiao yuan Bin Zhu · 2007 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Ben shu jiang shu : dai tou -- ben shu nan " zhu jiao ", yi ge yong huo xing si wei zuo shi de nong cun wa, zai da cheng shi li de " gou pao zhong xue " li, bu jin you zhe yao dian fu chuan tong de shi sheng guan xi, niu zhuan su tao de zhui qiu fang shi, shen zhi hai you jing ren de chong wu qing yuan. mei ge gu shi dou ji qi e gao. Shares: Pictorial works, Humor

The joys of Yiddish Leo Calvin Rosten · 1968 · ★ 4.3 · 533p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Do you know when to cry Mazel tov -- and when to avoid it like the plague? Did you know that Oy! is not a word, but a vocabulary with 29 distinct variations, sighed, cried, howled, or moaned, employed to express anything from ecstasy to horror? Here are words heard 'round the English-speaking world: chutzpa, or gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, "...that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed… Shares: English language, 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

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