Terry Southern is an acclaimed satirist of American culture, the writer responsible for Candy and the screenplay of Dr. Strangelove. In Flash and Filigree, his first novel, he delivers yet another outrageously funny commentary on the dark side of our national life. Frederick Eichner, world-renowned dermatologist, is visited by the entrancingly irritating Mr. Felix Treevly, who comes to him as a patient and stays as an obsession. Mr. Treevly leads the doctor into a series of hilarious and increas...
First appearing in the novel Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, and again in Ironweed--which won the Pulitzer Prize--members of the Phelan clan moveew novel. Three generations of the family are played out in ambitious and brilliant fashion, making for a sparkling literary experience.
The story of a New York family whose patriarch, H.O.Ho Rothman, founded a publishing dynasty that continues to exert an inescapable power over his heirs - particularly beautiful Alexandra Rothman, editor-in-chief of Mode, the flagship magazine of the empire.
Fantastic Fables (Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce) (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Ambrose Bierce
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Muistiinpanot venalaisesta kodittomasta
by Stawle Zosimov Wisewordski
Sean Lock stars in a surreal comedy masterpiece set in a heavily-bugged London tower block'Minor-key masterpiece' The TelegraphFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4, these classic cult comedies sparked a critically-acclaimed BBC TV show that ran for two series between 2002 and 2003. Starring the much-missed Sean Lock, these tower block tales revolve around a sardonic misanthrope who, despite his best efforts, can't seem to keep the world at bay. Holed up in his flat in Elderberry House, he's constantly...
i love you for your personality but that butt is really a nice bonus
by S T T Gag Gift for Valentine
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (New Canadian Library S.) (New Canadian Library)
by Stephen Leacock
Of the many books by Canada’s most celebrated humorist, none has received more acclaim than his brilliant, caustic treatment of the glittering rich who gather at the Mausoleum Club on Plutoria Avenue. Today, Leacock’s pointed satire of the privileged class, and their social abuses and pretences, retains every ounce of its freshness and bite. An undisputed comic masterpiece, Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich reveals a depth of compassionate criticism rare in Leacock’s writings.
In 1869, Godwin Tudor, a young English photographer sets out to taste the classical beauty and exotic wilderness of Greece. Whilst in Athens, he encounters the charismatic and maverick British landowner Edgar Brooke, whose vast estate dominates Pyroxenia, an island north of Attica. Although Brooke is ill-mannered, has many political enemies and is branded a social outcast, Godwin is intrigued by him, and sets out to visit. Whilst staying there Godwin finds himself enchanted by the breathtaking l...