1,000 Dreams and Tea-Cup Readings (The Meaning Of)
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Humor
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Old London Cries and Characters
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The Portable Curmudgeon
Plume, October 1992. Trade Paperback. More than 1,000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world class grouches. "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me."--Alice Roosevelt Longworth. More
Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook: Culinary Cartoons for the Humorously Famished
Simon & Schuster, May 2012. Trade Paperback. At the time of his death, Charles Addams was working on this project, a cookbook with never-before-seen artwork and never before tasted and very macabre recipes--published here for the first time, along with some classic Addams cartoons about food and cooking. Food and..... More
Blistering Barnacles: An A-Z of The Rants, Rambles and Rages of Captain Haddock: Celebrating 80 years of Hergé’s beloved comic character from Tintin
Farshore, December 2021. Hardcover. A sparklingly funny celebration of Hergé's most beloved character via his legendary exclamations! Captain Haddock made his first appearance alongside Tintin in 1941, and in the course of the 80 years that followed, has gone on to become one of Hergé best loved characters. Clumsy, accident-prone..... More
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores
Harry N. Abrams, July 2016. Trade Paperback. A simple Twitter question posed by John Cleese--"What is your biggest pet peeve?"--inspired Jen Campbell to start a blog collecting all the ridiculous conversations overheard in her bookstore. "Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?" "Did Charles Dickens ever write anything..... More
It Shouldn't Happen (to a Dog)
Dover Publications, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Army life didn't agree with GI Albert C. Bedlington, Jr. He felt like he was always crawling on all fours, and one day when the very thing he'd feared for months finally happened -- he had become a dog! The fellas all recognized him..... More
Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear
Knopf, April 2018. Hardcover. This is Oh, the Places You'll Never Go--the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduate's future. And what he or she can or can't do about it. "This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement..... More
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, November 1994. Trade Paperback. 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..... More
In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
Broadway Books, May 1991. Trade Paperback. Jean Shepherd once again takes up his satirist's pen to bring us another nostalgic portfolio of sketches that portray a more innocent era when life was good, fun was clean, and station wagons roamed the earth. More
The Thurber Carnival
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2013. Trade Paperback. "An authentic American genius. . . . Mr. Thurber belongs in the great lines of American humorists that includes Mark Twain and Ring Lardner." --Philadelphia Inquirer James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often..... More
On the Decay of the Art of Lying (American Roots)
American Roots, May 2015. Hardcover. In 1880, the great American author and humorist Mark Twain wrote his essay "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" for a Historical and Antiquarian Club meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. Twain's humorous and satirical voice is in full flower, as he discusses the universal..... More
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Even More) Expanded Third Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By
Seven Stories Press, March 2020. Trade Paperback. A collection of 15 graduation speeches and treasured wisdom from the New York Times-bestselling literary icon and author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions "Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut's crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted."--A.O. Scott, The..... More
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