Home from the war, a veteran finds that his battles have only just begun in this zany and irreverent satire from the author of Rally Round the Flag, Boys!
A wild and witty satire of American college life from the author of The Many Loves of Dobie GillisOn his first day of college, farm boy Asa Hearthrug enthusiastically jumps out of bed and discovers that his pajama pants are caught in the bedsprings.
A modern-day Faust embarks on a wild romp through the peculiar and preposterous American landscapeWhen the Devil shows up in Wakefield's living room to announce that his time is up, the bookish "e;de-motivational"e; speaker tries to strike a deal.
A madcap, bawdy tale about an ordinary man who goes to work for a racketeer and has the adventure of a lifetime: the last novel by an iconic British writer.
A pencil-pushing policeman becomes a badass sleuth in this off-the-wall detective story from one of America's funniest writersKenneth LePeters (nee Sussman) is a "e;quasi-dick.
From the author of Who Walk in Darkness and The Bold Saboteurs, a wild and wickedly funny tale of madness, lust, and murder in midcentury New YorkIn a posh mental institution upstate, Carter bides his time between electroshock treatments, trying to figure out where it all went wrong.
Malcolm Bradbury's classic skewering of 1970s academia, hailed by the New York Times as "e;an encyclopedia of radical chic as well as a genuinely comic novel"e;Among the painfully hip students and teachers at the liberal University of Watermouth, Howard Kirk appears to be the most stylish of them all.
This classic tragicomic tale from George Barr McCutcheon transforms everyone's favorite caviar-and-champagne dream into a soul-shaking test of mistrust and reckless spendingPopular, good-looking, and enterprising, Montgomery Brewster is the toast of New York.
At the height of the 1960s, a British writer accepts an academic post in America for a year that he'll never forgetEnglish author James Walker has three books to his name, each greeted with middling success and then promptly forgotten.
The excellent adventures of the aristocratic British feline continue as James puts his best paw forward to solve crimes while indulging in the finer things in lifeJames is enjoying life at Baron's Chambers, the London apartment house where he shares a flat with his sometime handler, an American fine arts agent.
The delightful crime-solving and aristocratic social adventures of an American antiques expert and a British feline with finesseIt's love at first sight when a businessman visiting London meets a silver-gray cat named James in the lobby of his apartment house.
In Campbell Armstrong's chilling novel of suburban horror, something evil lurks in the garden behind an English boardinghouseEric Billings is not a violent man not really.
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).
The inspiration for the hit London Weekend Television series of the same name, this is one confessional you'll want to make a point of visitingYoung Neil Boyd has just finished divinity school and has been newly ordained as a priest.
From the series that inspired the hit London Weekend Television sitcom Bless Me, Father: A touching series of escapades from the always-rowdy parish of St.
From the world's greatest satirist, the classic adventures of the intrepid GulliverBroken into four parts, Gulliver's Travels marks the progress of a gallant explorer as he sails into the unknown, visiting surreal worlds like Brobdingnag, a realm filled with gigantic men; Lilliput, a diminutive land filled with pint-size people; Laputa, a floating island in the sky; and even the fabled land known as Japan.
Looking to strike it rich with television gold, an English media tycoon enlists the help of an unassuming novelist to script his small-screen epic, to disastrous-and hilarious-effectThe year is 1986, and the cuts imposed by Margaret Thatcher's government have trickled down to university life, where departments are being forced to shave their payrolls to account for reduced public funding.
A headstrong young journalist goes on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling through Europe to find the world's most enigmatic philosopherBazlo Criminale is one of Europe's most legendary living men.
Reporter-turned-television executive Robin Hudson is living it up at New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel-until murder gets her down in award-winning author Sparkle Hayter's dazzling comic mysteryAfter a neighbor's electric wall-hanging short-circuits and sets Robin Hudson's East Village apartment building on fire, the TV newswoman and her cat are forced to temporarily relocate.
When TV newswoman Robin Hudson launches an investigation into how far men have evolved, she confronts her most unusual murder case yet in this mystery that the San Diego Union-Tribune hailed as "e;offbeat and outrageously funny,"e; by award-winning author Sparkle Hayter With her new executive status at All New Network, reporter Robin Hudson is experiencing a testosterone high from bossing around her macho male coworkers.
On Halloween, TV news producer Robin Hudson takes a deadly stroll down memory lane in award-winning author Sparkle Hayter's profoundly funny mystery, which Janet Evanovich hailed as "e;sexy, irreverent, and wacky"e;Things are looking up for Robin Hudson.
Arthur Ellis Award Winner: The "e;flat-out funny"e; first mystery in the series featuring a newly single reporter trying to clear herself of murder (Publishers Weekly).
A bitterly comic novel of middle-aged angst and middle-class American life in the 1960s, by the acclaimed author of Little Big ManIt is the late sixties in suburbia, and Carlo Reinhart's life is a mess.
The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it allStanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer.
A masterwork of literary parody about a suburban Samaritan and the poet he seeks to inspireAfter the wild adventures of Comfort Me with Apples, Chick Swallow has found domestic peace in Decency, Connecticut, accepting his fate as a middle-class husband and father and the author of an advice column in the local newspaper.
An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as "e;the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic"e;Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People's Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut.
A laugh-out-loud novel about teenage pretensions and adult delusions from an author whom the New York Times has called "e;a Balzac of the station wagon set"e;Chick Swallow and his best friend, Nickie Sherman, are teenage boulevardiers of Decency, Connecticut, devotees of Oscar Wilde who spend their evenings crafting perverse aphorisms in an ice-cream parlor.
Henry James's tragicomic masterpiece pits a headstrong Mississippi lawyer against his feminist cousin in a no-holds-barred fight for the heart of an impressionable young suffragetteWhen Basil Ransom, a headstrong Mississippi lawyer, comes to Boston to call on his wealthy activist cousin, Olive, an epic battle of wills ensues.
The classic comic travelogue about an ill-fated boating holiday on the River ThamesThree Men in a Boat is the irreverent tale of a group of friends who, along with a fox terrier named Montmorency, embark on a two-week boating journey up the Thames.
Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed "e;America's preeminent comic novelist"e; by the New York TimesWhen college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature involving a locked door, an alcoholic dog, and a punning doppelganger.
This volume contains eleven stories not previously collected together and not included in any of the other classic Sheckley compendiums published by Open Road.
