Satirical fiction and parodies

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOROn his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing.

Lukas ist nach seinem Ski-Unfall zurück in der Schule, und es geht Schlag auf Schlag: Zuerst wird er aus heiterem Himmel zum Klassensprecher gewählt.

2023 Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars for a book in the field of Literatures in the English LanguageResponding to the current surge in present-tense novels, Making Time is an innovative contribution to narratological research on present-tense usage in narrative fiction.

BLUTBÄDER, BLÄHUNGEN, BIERRÄUSCHE: BIERMÖSEL IS BACK!

Jean Roscoff versteht die Welt nicht mehr.

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in the 19th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the first book in the Industrial Revolution series, part of the Discworld novels.

'Seldom is a book as funny, important and timely .

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE'Dazzling' GUARDIAN'Blistering' THE TIMES'A delight' DIANA EVANS'Fiction written at the highest level' ANN PATCHETT'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMESAn electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.

When Fairy Blackstick created a magical rose and ring, she did not anticipate their existence to be so troublesome.

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.

"e;Dangerous, charming, and funny, this elegant miniature rediscovery will delight even brilliant minds.

AMIGA.

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose.

Dieses Buch ist der ideale Begleiter für Weihnachten.

Crome Yellow (1921) is a novel by English author Aldous Huxley.

"e;Dangerous, charming, and funny, this elegant miniature rediscovery will delight even brilliant minds.

A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text.

In Lionel Shrivers entertaining send-up of todays cult of exercisewhich not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal lifean aging husbands sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.

"e;I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.

'Gdansk 1989.

This vintage book contains Jonathan Swift's 1704 satire, "e;A Tale of a Tub"e;.

Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year.

THE INSTANT CULT CLASSIC FROM THE WINNER OF THE O.

The Twelfth Hour (1907) is a novel by Ada Leverson.

The Disturbing Charm (1919) is a romance novel by Berta Ruck.

TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT CHANDLERMoscow in the 1930s is a symbol of Soviet paradise; a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier"e;.

Lucia is the most popular and well read character written by E.

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in the 19th century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Senslerdeutsch ist die Alltagssprache der Leute aus dem deutschfreiburgischen Sensebezirk, meist Sensler genannt.

This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son.

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When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson cant cry.

'Funny, touching and wise, I loved it' Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is LeonWendy is lonely but coping.

Undine Spragg is a beautiful and ambitious, yet vain and socially dense young woman with dreams of marrying a rich man.

This early work by Ring Lardner was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction.

Eine Frau zwischen zwei Männern – das war einmal große Oper.

Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the second book in the Witches series, part of the Discworld novels.

Re-live the glory and the heartache of England's greatest ever game - and THAT World Cup Final back in 2022.

Spitzbübisch und boshaft, urwüchsig und frivol sind Oskar Maria Grafs 31 Geschichten von schamlosen Weibern und gehörnten Ehemännern, von derben Mägden und ausgefuchsten Knechten.

"e;The Misfortunes of Elphin"e; is a 1829 novella by English novelist and poet Thomas Love Peacock.

From the author of countless esteemed classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, , Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court follows an American engineer named Hank Morgan.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Eine schockierende Satire auf die oberflächliche Welt des Glamours und der ProminenzIn »Glamorama« entführt Bret Easton Ellis in die schillernde, aber auch abgründige Welt der Stars, Models und Szene-Clubs.

This hilarious new novel by Americas best-selling cowboy poet, Baxter Black, offers afunny, fast-paced inside look at the lives of rodeo cowboys and the women they love--or that they want to love.

In his daily cartoon for the Guardian and his long-running strip, IF, in the same paper, Steve Bell has proved that he is without equal in Britain as political cartoonist.

"e;Laura Middleton - Her Brother and Her Lover"e; is an anonymously-authored Victoria erotic novel first published in the late nineteenth century.

This volume contains Stephen Leacock's collection of short stories, "e;Winsome Winnie And Other New Nonsense Novels"e; (first published in 1920).

The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen of mystery.

This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1835 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.