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Satyryczna
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Quite Honestly
ISBN: 9780143038641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the creator of the Rumpole storiesa novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awry
Fans of John Mortimer and his popular Rumpole mysteries will love Quite Honestly, a comedy filled with a delightful cast of characters and Mortimer's unique and entertaining take on a life of crime. Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoycollege educated, with a steady boyfriend and a job offer in advertising. With all this good fortune, isn't it appropriate for her to give something back to society? Armed with only good intentions, she joins Social Carers, Reformers and Praeceptors... From the creator of the Rumpole storiesa novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awry
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Londonstani : A Novel
ISBN: 9780143112280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A talented new writer whose portrayal of the serious business of assimilation and young masculinity is disturbing and hilarious Hailed as one of the most surprising British novels in recent years, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut reveals young South Asians struggling to distinguish themselves from their parents' generation in the vast urban sprawl that is contemporary London. Chronicling the lives of a gang of four young middle-class men-Hardjit, the violent enforcer; Ravi, the follower; Amit, who's struggling to come to terms with his mother's hypocrisy; and Jas, desperate to...
A talented new writer whose portrayal of the serious business of assimilation and young masculinity is disturbing and hilarious Hailed as ...
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94,50 |
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Hunk City
ISBN: 9780143113126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An astute and comical dissection of the culture wars-by the author of the much-loved Modern Baptists
For More Than twenty years, James Wilcox has been cherished by reviewers and readers alike as one of the most talented American humorists. Since his classic Modern Baptists (picked by Harold Bloom as one of the few contemporary novels in his Western Canon), Wilcox has been charting the intricate spiritual topography of the South with inimitable wit and empathy. His -real comic genius- (Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review) has never been so brilliantly... An astute and comical dissection of the culture wars-by the author of the much-loved Modern Baptists
For More Than twenty years, Ja... |
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94,50 |
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Miss Julia Strikes Back
ISBN: 9780143113300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The irresistible, indefatigable Miss Julia is back, turning the tables on a thief who chose the wrong belle to burgle. Don't missAnn Ross's latest, Miss Julia Weathers The Storm, coming April 2017 from Viking.
Having earned a devoted following for her rollicking antics and unshakable poise, Miss Julia's eighth outing begins with an unfortunate discovery. Her cherished engagement ring-an exact replica of Princess Di's-turns up missing after a party, making her the latest target of a Florida- based gang who, according to Sergeant Coleman Bates, has been denuding... The irresistible, indefatigable Miss Julia is back, turning the tables on a thief who chose the wrong belle to burgle. Don't missAnn Ross's latest,...
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94,50 |
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The Willowdale Handcar: Or the Return of the Black Doll
ISBN: 9780151010356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, traveling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff.
At once deeply vexing and utterly hilarious, darkly mysterious and amusingly absurd, "The Willowdale Handcar "is vintage Edward Gorey. In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, traveling by handcar. On the way to nowhe...
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51,15 |
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The Columnist
ISBN: 9780156011983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Brandon Sladder, author Jeffrey Frank has created one of the most memorable rogues in contemporary fiction. A prominent Washington columnist, Sladder has known just about everyone of importance. He has spoken on intimate terms with world leaders, been a witness to enormous change, and expressed weighty opinions on important matters of state. When former President Bush encourages him to write his memoirs, Sladder believes that his life story could add much more than a footnote to our age and attempts to burnish his image for posterity. What emerges instead is the story of an irresistibly...
In Brandon Sladder, author Jeffrey Frank has created one of the most memorable rogues in contemporary fiction. A prominent Washington columnist, Sladd...
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62,96 |
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These People Are Us
ISBN: 9780156012744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Once you start reading George Singleton's eagerly awaited first book of stories, a strange thing happens: You discover that the characters sound like people you know--people who are trying hard to make sense of modern absurdities.
With a style all his own, Singleton fashions a world that wins our hearts but teases our senses: how to find a black-market sonogram so your pregnant wife won't find out you accidentally taped over the original; how to help your father and everyone else in town fake being hit by a tornado to get emergency government funds; and why not to look for your next wife... Once you start reading George Singleton's eagerly awaited first book of stories, a strange thing happens: You discover that the characters sound like ...
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66,90 |
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Novel
ISBN: 9780156030915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Set in the town of Gruel, South Carolina, this first novel by George Singleton, master of the comic short story, is the tale of a young man named Novel (his brother's name is James; his sister's is Joyce), a professional snake handler who stumbles across strange doings while he sits in a motel room writing his autobiography. As he struggles to recount his life story, he uncovers-and finds himself starring in-a decades-old town secret, one that can blow him and his fellow citizens sky-high. Funny as only George Singleton can be, full of Southern mischief and wit, Novel is a crazed and crazy...
Set in the town of Gruel, South Carolina, this first novel by George Singleton, master of the comic short story, is the tale of a young man named Nove...
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70,83 |
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IBID
ISBN: 9780156031004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Only Mark Dunn, author of the acclaimed Ella Minnow Pea, would attempt to write a novel entirely in footnotes-and succeed so triumphantly. Ibid is the off-the-wall fictional biography of Jonathan Blashette, a three-legged circus performer and deodorant entrepreneur. Dunn, a character in his own novel, is Blashette's esteemed biographer. But when Dunn's editor destroys the manuscript in an unfortunate bathtub accident, all that remains are the footnotes, which they arrange to publish in a consummate portrait of Blashette's strangely hilarious life story, one that offers some infinitely...
Only Mark Dunn, author of the acclaimed Ella Minnow Pea, would attempt to write a novel entirely in footnotes-and succeed so triumphantly. Ibid is the...
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62,96 |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
ISBN: 9780156034562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. UK BESTSELLERWhat does it take to make us believe in the impossible?For Dr. Alfred Jones, life is a quiet mixture of civil service at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence and marriage to Mary--an ambitious, no-nonsense financier. But a strange turn of fate from an unexpected direction forces Jones to upend his existence and spend all of his time in pursuit of another man's ludicrous dream. Can there be salmon in the Yemen? Science says no. But if resources are limitless and the visionary is inspired, maybe salmon fishing in the Yemen isn't impossible. Then again, maybe nothing is.
UK BESTSELLERWhat does it take to make us believe in the impossible?For Dr. Alfred Jones, life is a quiet mixture of civil service at the National Cen...
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58,86 |
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Best of Bad Hemingway: Vol 1: Choice Entries from the Harry's Bar & American Grill Imitation Hemingway Competition
ISBN: 9780156118613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The rules of the competition are simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. A "Trophy Room" section here includes Papa parodies from the past by F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Raymond Chandler, et al. Introduction by George Plimpton; caricatures.
The rules of the competition are simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. A "Trophy Room" section here includes Papa parodies from the past by F. Sc...
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62,44 |
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The Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n
ISBN: 9780156278119 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The humorous adventures of Hyman Kaplan, the irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults, and his personal war with the English language. A classic work of american humor.
The humorous adventures of Hyman Kaplan, the irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults, and his personal war with the ...
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American Humor
ISBN: 9780195042122 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How have they evolved and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally appearing as an issue of the American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, and particularly focus on the neglected trends of the past fifty years. Looking at American comic figures as diverse--and even surprising--as Mark Twain...
The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's ch...
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American Humor
ISBN: 9780195050547 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How have they evolved and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally appearing as an issue of the American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, and focus particularly on the neglected trends of the past fifty years. Looking at American comic figures as diverse--and even surprising--as Mark Twain...
The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's ch...
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170,31 |
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Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
ISBN: 9780195101867 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand the peculiar expressive power of the riddle, and the cultural logic of its particular uses; they scrutinize the riddle's logical structure and linguistic...
This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and ...
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838,28 |
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The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites
ISBN: 9780226042183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life," "Vanity Fair," and "The New Yorker," earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence on contemporaries such as E. B. White, James Thurber, and S. J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. "The Benchley Roundup "collects those pieces, selected by Benchley's son Nathaniel, "which seem to stand up best over the years"-a compendium of the most endearing and enduring work from one of...
Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life," "Vanity Fair," and "The New Yorker," earned him a reputation as one ...
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The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate
ISBN: 9780226100234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthier food.
What began as an informal gathering is now an institution that has been... Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the wor...
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The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate:
ISBN: 9780226100241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthier food.
What began as an informal gathering is now an institution that has been... Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the wor...
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62,50 |
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Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters
ISBN: 9780226112312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven't been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious sign in front that says "$1,000 to anyone who will convert." "I wonder what that's about," says Abe. "I think I'll go in and have a look. I'll be back in a minute; just wait for me." Sol sits on the sidewalk bench and waits patiently for nearly half an hour. Finally, Abe reappears. "Well," asks Sol, "what are they up to? Who are they trying to convert? Why do they care? Did you get the $1,000?" Indignantly Abe replies, "Money. That's...
Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven't been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious si...
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Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
ISBN: 9780252070297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This reprint makes one of America's greatest humorists--and one of America's greatest humorous characters--available again to the public.
This reprint makes one of America's greatest humorists--and one of America's greatest humorous characters--available again to the public.
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