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Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Featuring ten works of comedic short fiction, P.G Wodehouse's The Clicking of Cuthbert is comprised of stories about golfers that teach a lesson is an odd and amusing way. In A Woman is Only a Woman, the friendship between two men is threatened when they both fall in love with the same woman. Since she claims to like them equally, the two men decide to challenge each other to a game of golf, agreeing that the best golfer gets the woman's hand in marriage....
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of essays and other nonfiction spanning Terry Pratchett's entire career, from his early years to the present day. A collection of essays and other nonfiction spanning Terry Pratchett's entire career, from his early years to the present day"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They say trouble comes in threes, and Bertie Wooster soon learns why. It all begins when his aunt Dahlia asks him to steal a silver cow creamer illegally obtained by her husband's silver rival. Then comes the telegram from Gussie Fink-Nottle begging Bertie to come to Totleigh Towers to mend the rift between him and his soppy fiancée, Madeline Bassett. To top it all off, Bertie must contend with Roderick Spode, the menacing, black shorts-wearing,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Philomena Cunk is one of the greatest thinkers of the 21st century, and in Cunk on Everything she turns her attention to our biggest issue: why are there so many books? Wouldn't it be better if there was just one? This is that book -- an encyclopedia of all human knowledge, delving into not only life's greatest mysteries but our most important political figures and cultural touchstones. "--Publisher website.
Publisher
A & E
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Benny Hill: the complete megaset contains Benny's raucous 20-year reign over television's-sketch variety genre, from the naughty early years to the debut of the nubile Hill's Angels, through the final episodes. Witness the birth of crazy caricatures like Fred Scuttle, Chow Mein, and Pierre de Terre. Laugh out loud as Benny and his bevy of buxom babes flaunt their racy rowdiness and tongue-in-cheek satire in characteristically outrageous sketches...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"North American edition of Things Are Against Us, published by Galley Beggar Press in July 2021. Things Are Against Us is a collection of satirical essays. They treat subjects such as the obstinancy, incorrigibility, and recalcitrance of THINGS, which have a lot to answer for; Laura Ingalls Wilder's unimpressive descriptions of the construction of bobsleds, railways, and complicated dresses, and the astonishing amount of food Almanzo Wilder ate in...
Author
Publisher
HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Revisit childhood classics, but not as you remember them. Familiar fables are turned on their heads as your beloved heroines finally have their say. Retold through a feminist lens as one liners, verses and rhyming couplets, and highlighting the sexism endemic in stories we grew up with, these classic tales will never be read in the same way again...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 252
Language
English
Description
"After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars."...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Rowan Atkinson (Johnny English, Blackadder) stars as the iconic Mr. Bean, who never fails to leave a trail of merry mayhem and side-splitting laughter in his wake. His exploits have earned MR. BEAN a slew of awards and an international cult following, and now every one of his live adventures is conveniently packed up in one tidy box. Included in this collector s set are all 14 episodes of the landmark original series that introduced Mr. Bean to an...
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A massive collection of laugh-out-loud jokes-arranged A-to-Z by subject!
•Did you hear about the flasher who was thinking of retiring? He finally decided to stick it out for one more year!
•A dog with three legs walks into a Wild West bar and says, "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."
•Where do you get virgin wool from? An ugly sheep!
•What did the blonde say when she looked into a box of Cheerios? "Oh look! Donut seeds!"
•The...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Often touted as the best British sitcom ever, Only Fools and Horses tells the story of the crafty cockney huckster Derek Trotter (David Jason), who has finally found the perfect scheme which he is convinced will make him a millionaire within a year! Del's kid brother Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and his sweet but doddery old granddad (Lennard Pearce) have seen 'em all, however, from the one-legged turkeys to the Old English vinyl briefcases which no...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The long awaited first collection by Will McPhail, with nearly 200 cartoons, including his New Yorker classics and new gems. With his shrewd eye for mundane absurdities and his hysterically astute drawings of animals, Will McPhail is the New Yorker's most distinctive cartoonist. His cartoons delight in the everyday anxieties of modern life, skewer contemporary politics, and cut to the core of the most bizarre human behaviors. In Love & Vermin,...
20) Simon's cat
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Originally created as a series of animated cartoons broadcast on youtube.com, Simon's Cat is a collection of drawings by London animator Simon Tofield featuring his cat Simon.
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