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Veinte sketches o relatos breves de ficción, con la perfecta mezcla de la compostura victoriana y el humor de Jerome, tratando ideas, divagaciones o reflexiones sobre tan diversas temáticas como son el matrimonio y la pareja, el amigo plasta, la mala suerte, fantasmas y espíritus, habladurías y cotilleos, infidelidades o la moda con los siguientes títulos: REGINALD BLAKE, FINANCIERO Y GRANUJA LA ASTUCIA DE MARY SEWELL, BILLY EL GASTADO, LA ELECCION DE CYRIL HARJOHN, LA MATERIALIZACIÓN DE CHARLES Y MIVANWAY, RETRATO DE UNA DAMA, EL HOMBRE QUE QUERÍA AYUDAR, EL HOMBRE QUE VIVÍA PENDIENTE DE LOS DEMÁS, UN HOMBRE DE COSTUMBRES, EL HOMBRE DISTRAÍDO, UNA MUJER ENCANTADORA ,EL ESPÍRITU DE WHIBLEY,EL HOMBRE QUE ACABO MAL, UN HOMBRE MANIÁTICO, EL HOMBRE QUE NO CREÍA EN LA SUERTE, EL GATO DE DICK DUNKERMAN, LA HISTORIA DEL POETA MENOR, LA DEGENERACIÓN DE THOMAS HENRY, LA CIUDAD DEL MAR y A LA DERIVA.
Este volumen pretende acercar al lector a ese desconocido mundo de arena y rocas esculpidas por el viento, así como mostrarle algunas de sus más sorprendentes formas de vida, como la welwitschia, la planta más rara del mundo, las hormigas "tarro-de-miel" o las serpientes que "ven" el calor.
In a series of essays, Runyon, reflects on the frank, often outrageous opinions of his ';old man,' who knows a thing or two about just about everythingand even if he doesn't, he'll tell you anyway.
7 Episoden die passiert sind, obwohl sie unmöglich sind … oder passieren werden … oder vielleicht doch nicht … oder sind sie doch möglich und nicht passiert?
The international bestselling author shares "e;a glitteringly poignant novel"e; of an Iranian family navigating war, migration, and generational divides (Ruth Padel, author of Where the Serpent Lives).
Imagine that Jane Austen had written the opening line of her satirical novel Pride and Prejudice this way: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a good romp and a good wife although not necessarily from the same person or from the opposite sex.
Sieben Jahre nach dem Tode von Rudolf Augstein erhob Martin Walser erstmals im November 2009 Anspruch auf die Vaterschaft von dessen ältestem Sohn Jakob.
Camilla is a satirical novel by Fanny Burney, following a young high-society woman as she navigates the complexities of family relationships and journeys towards self-discovery and love in the late-eighteenth century.
Die abenteuerliche Geschichte eines modernen Don Quijote, der voller Zuversicht und Tatendrang die Mission verfolgt, Nachhaltigkeit, Identitätspolitik und Wokeness in die Provinz zu tragen.
Dalègre es un afable bon vivant oriundo de Nevers, donde vive feliz hasta que, un buen día, harto de disfrutar de los placeres mundanos que le ofrece esa pequeña ciudad de provincias en el centro de Francia, decide visitar París.
'The prince of philosophical novels' John UpdikeIn Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most glorious satires of the eighteenth century.
In April 2020, at the height of the pandemic in New York City, Andrew, the assistant director of a funeral home one mile from Elmhurst Hospital, the epicenter of the epicenter, meets a legendary Coney Island witch doctor (Lelya Dorche), who makes him an offer that could better his chances of keeping his COVID-positive elderly parents and his severely asthmatic 13-year-old son, Miro, off the ever-expanding list of virus mortalities.
The Warden, the opening novel of Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire series, is a finely poised study of conscience, institution, and public controversy in Victorian England.
The Chronicles of Clovis gathers Saki's sharply polished short fiction into a collection defined by social satire, elegant cruelty, and the comic exposure of Edwardian complacency.
It's a truth often acknowledged that when a Jane Austen fan girl ends up living next door to a cynical but handsome crime writer, romantic sparks will fly!
"Der Untertan" von Heinrich Mann ist ein scharfsinniger Gesellschaftsroman, der die Untertanenmentalität des deutschen Bürgertums im Kaiserreich kritisch beleuchtet.
Dieses eBook: "Geschichte der Abderiten" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
A stinging satire of tell-all showbiz memoirs starring a self-deluded gay icon who has managed to ride every pop culture trend of the last forty years.
First published in 1972, Going Down Slow is an intense and very funny novel about one mans attempt to maintain his sanity, and his sense of humour, in the face of mounting odds.
Kampagnenmanager Frank Fischbach hat alles erreicht, was er wollte: Macht, einen ihm ergebenen Kanzler, eine erfolgreiche Freundin, ein rasant expandierendes Unternehmen.
The Flying Inn is Chesterton's exuberant 1914 satirical romance, a comic campaign against bureaucratic puritanism, imperial abstraction, and the thinning of English convivial life.
Prosper Mérimée's Zwiefacher Irrtum is ein fesselndes Werk, das die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes erzählt, der aufgrund eines doppelten Missverständnisses in eine gefährliche Situation gerät.
Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) follows the amiable Parson Yorick through a sequence of encounters in Calais, Paris, and beyond, where travel becomes less geography than moral perception.
