Author: Stephen Butler Leacock
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wet Wit & Dry Humour" by Stephen Butler Leacock. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Stephen Leacock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 260

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Author: Stephen Leacock
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Max Eastman
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230297583
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xi good and bad jokes The day may come when some insuppressible classificator, a kind of scholastic joculary entomologist, equipped with an eyepiece and a bottle of chloroform, will go about collecting all the different kinds of jokes and puns and whims and twits and follies, and all the nameless little light-winged forms of "smile talk" that the ingenious hand of evolution may unfold, pin them down in a great book with names derived from the all-suffering Latin, one each for the genus, species, family, order, tribe to which they severally belong, and so endow the mighty steel-ribbed shelves of the libraries of this world with a new and monumental science. It will be a science upon which those who are addicted to labor can practise their vice without fear of ever exhausting the material. For here we have already, with our distinction between simple humor and jokes with a point, and between the two currents of value, positive and negative, which constitute the point of a joke, and between poetic and practical, quantitative and qualitative humor--we have already laid ground for enough permutations and combinations to fill with their illustration many laborious volumes. And we have not even mentioned the well-known distinction between dry humor and wet, or between salt wit and sweet, or made half the trouble that might be made out of that between comic action and the humor that is conveyed in words. Undoubtedly a deep and stupendous task is here already in outline. And there remains the fact that when we are once inwardly frivolized, and rendered a little inanely hysterical, as we certainly shall be before we have finished perusing one of these vast works, we will laugh at anything at all that is mentioned--and so in the end the...

Author: Tracy Chevalier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135314101
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1032

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This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

Author: Nick Mandaag
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770465251
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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A dark, bizarre comedy where teachers push boundaries into preposterous places The Follies of Richard Wadsworth showcases Nick Maandag’s signature blend of deadpan satire and exceedingly unexpected plot twists. In “Night School,” a Modern Managerial Business Administration and Operational Leadership class goes awry when a fire alarm brings the Chief to school and he decides to stick around to teach the students a thing or two about leadership—and discipline. “The Follies of Richard Wadsworth” follows the title character, a professor of philosophy, as he begins work as a contract instructor at yet another university. When Wadsworth finds himself smoking reefer at his student’s party and discovers she works at a rub ’n’ tug, an off-kilter plan is hatched. And in “The Disciple,” a yarn about a coed Buddhist monastery, Brother Bananas, the resident gorilla, isn’t the only one having difficulty keeping his lust tucked safely under his robe. In Maandag’s hands—hands that love to toy with morally ambiguous characters and flirt with absurdity—troubled men make poor decisions, unlikable characters gain our sympathies through their very haplessness, and riotous laughs ensue. Maandag has achieved cult acclaim through his self-published and micro-published comics, and The Follies of Richard Wadsworth is his debut book. His mechanical, affectless characters and economical artwork efficiently deliver cringes, heightening the awkward silence and stillness of his hilarious comics.

Author: Kenneth Steven
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592701735
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Retelling the story of Noah and the Ark, author and illustrator create a tale of Noah and his dog.

Author: John Kennedy Toole
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802197620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

Author: Ruby Peru
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692513484
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Prim, persnickety ElizabethAnn must restore a delicate balance of technology and magic to the mysterious land of Bumblegreen, all despite greedy watchmakers, toxic babies, and one particularly obnoxious Lothario. This imaginative fantasy novel, with its beautiful pen-and-ink cover and illustrations, is a perfect gift for any artist or bibliophile.

Author: Erma Bombeck
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 030777824X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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"America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd let me wake up in my own way. Why do they have to line up along my bed and stare at me like Moby Dick just washed up onto a beach somewhere?"