18 books like Under the duvet

What to read after Under the duvet — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

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: Journalism, Anecdotes, Humor

Shi shuo xin yu Liu, Yiqing · 1615 · ★ 3.5 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Demanding 拥有几个世纪的文学作品,不可避免地会有一些人从裂缝中掉下来。 我们搜寻并修复公共领域的作品,以免它们丢失。 我们是谁? 我们是凯恩出版社。 我们的背景是设计、出版、排版和技术。 这些技能推动了我们以可承受的价格在线创建最高质量的公共领域电子书的使命。 我们给予他们应有的待遇; 我们专有的流程可以修复书籍,从而在设计、可读性和电子阅读器兼容性方面提供更好的整体用户体验。 通过这本 世說新語, 经过 Yiqing Liu 的数字版电子书探索一段历史。 这部作品经过精心修复并忠实于原作,被学者认为具有重要的文化意义,是我们文明知识库的基本组成部分。 今天拿起你的副本。 类型:中国 – 历史 – 三国,220-265 – 轶事,中国 – 历史 – 晋朝,265-419 – 轶事 Shares: Anecdotes, Humor, Biography & Memoir

Metropolitan Life Fran Lebowitz · 1978 · ★ 3.3 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious,… Shares: Anecdotes, Manners and customs, Humor, Social life and customs

The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.] O. Henry · 1899 · ★ 3.8 · 1396p · ≈ 46h · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The troll garden Willa Cather · 1905 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging "This collection of Willa Cather stories - her first book of fiction and the capstone of her early career - is as relevant today as at the time of its initial publication. As different and individually distinguished as the seven stories may be, they share as their subject the role and status of the artist in American society. The passions, ambitions, and pretensions, the cant and the pathos of… Shares: Manners and customs, Social life and customs, Short Stories

The ruling passion Henry van Dyke · 1901 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true… Shares: Manners and customs, Short Stories

Gentle craft Deloney, Thomas · 1627 · 63p · ≈ 2h · Demanding The history of sampler-maki9ng is as colorful and varied as the craft itself. In this lavishly illustrated book, Anne Sebba charts the rise of the sampler in Great Britain and America from its sixteenth-century origins to its present day popularity among collectors of antiques. Shares: Anecdotes, Humor

Stories of American life and adventure Edward Eggleston · 1895 · ★ 3.7 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The principal aim of this book is to make the reader acquainted with American life and manners in other times. The history of life has come to be esteemed of capital importance, but it finds, as yet, small place in school instruction. The stories and sket. Shares: Anecdotes, Humor, Social life and customs

Escenas matritenses Ramón de Mesonero Romanos · 1862 · 396p · ≈ 13h · Challenging El interés de Mesonero Romanos por su ciudad natal dio como fruto algunas de sus obras más importantes, como esta, en la que reflejó la moralidad matritense. Shares: Anecdotes, Humor, Social life and customs

A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility HallIsaac Hunt

A continuation of the exercises, in Scurrility Hall Isaac Hunt · 1765 Shares: Anecdotes, Humor

How to Fail in Literature (Reprint) Andrew Lang · 1890 · ★ 4.0 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares: Anecdotes, Humor

Curiosities of literature Isaac Disraeli · 1793 · 446p · ≈ 14h · Demanding In "Curiosities of Literature," Isaac Disraeli offers a captivating anthology that intricately weaves the realms of literature, history, and philosophy. The book comprises a series of essays exploring the eccentricities and lesser-known facets of literary figures, cultural traditions, and historical anecdotes. Disraeli's prose is characterized by its eloquent style and a careful attention to… Shares: Anecdotes, Humor

Drums Under the Windows Sean O'Casey · 1945 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Challenging 'I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.' Sean O'Casey, 1948 Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiography, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently comprehensive self-portrait of an artist's life and times, unsurpassed in literature.Drums Under the Windows (1945)… Shares: Irish authors, Biography & Memoir

The theory & practice of gamesmanship Stephen Potter · 1940 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Gamesmanship as a civilised art is as old as the competitive spirit in man. It is polite psychological warfare. It is the moral equivalent of assault and battery. It is, as the subject of this book points out, The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating. Anyone who has ever played any games for keeps has discovered the Gamesman either in himself or in an opponent. In its simplest terms the… Shares: Anecdotes, Humor

Mo scéal féin Peadar Ó Laoghaire · 1910 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An autobiography (“My Own Story”). Shares: Irish authors, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir

The book of snobs William Makepeace Thackeray · 1848 · ★ 3.7 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Thackeray contributed regularly to Fraser's Magazine, Morning Chronicle, New Monthly Magazine and The Times. His writings attracted first attention in Punch, where he satirized English snobbery. These sketches reappeared in 1848 as The Book of Snobs, stating in it that "he who meanly admires mean things is a Snob." Shares: Anecdotes, Humor

Anecdotes médicales; bons mots, pensées et maximes, chansons, épigrammes, etc Gustave Joseph Witkowski · 1880 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares: Anecdotes, Humor

Thurber Carnival James Thurber · 1940 · ★ 4.2 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Challenging James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in The New Yorker,… Shares: Humor, Short Stories, Biography & Memoir

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