'When people ask me what I do for a crust and I tell them that I'm a novelist, they immediately assume that my life is a non-stop carousel of limos, television appearances hair-dos, devoted fans, stalkers and all the glitzy paraphernalia of being a public figure. It's time to set the record straight. I write alone, in a darkened bedroom, wearing my PJs, eating bananas, my laptop on a pillow in front of me ...' Her novels are read and adored by millions around the world - now read Marian Keyes...
The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis - Scholar's Choice Edition
God Laughed (Routledge Jewish Studies) (Jewish Studies)
by Hershey H Friedman and Linda Weiser Friedman
Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts-the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash-in a clear, readable, and accessible manner.These works have influenced the Jewish people in many ways, and all are replete with humor and wit. Inevitably, this oeuvre of Jewish humor has itself influenced generations of comics...
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)-Great Britain
by Francis W Halsey
Necessary Nonsense (Cognitive Approaches to Culture)
by Irving Massey
Post Office Lady with the Dragon Tattoo, The: An Essay
by Laurie Notaro
Through the Looking Glass (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #2) (Tantor Unabridged Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
In this sequel to "Alice in Wonderland" Alice goes through the mirror to find a strange world where curious adventures await her.
Few philosophers have had as much influence as Hegel. When he died in 1831, he not only dominated German philosophy, but also left his mark on the study of religion and art, on historical studies, and on political thought. Much later, Lenin insisted that no one could completely comprehend Karl Marx unless he had first made a thorough study of Hegel. Later, it became fashionable to link Hegel with Nazism and communism. There is today broad agreement that knowledge of Hegel's thought adds a critic...
For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Moliere, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and histori...
In Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor James Cox analyzes the humor of the man known as Mark Twain. Now with a new introduction and an additional essay written as a follow-up to the book, Mark Twain shows all the facets of this complicated lecturer and performer. From the ""birth"" of Mark Twain to his visions in the 1900s of human existence as a state of slavery, Cox's work explores the very heart of the man who became the beloved sage of America, pursued by reporters and embraced by his countrymen.