Book Description
A collection of the funniest gags, quips, and stories by America's best-selling humorist.
Author : Larry Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1988
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 9780945040002
A collection of the funniest gags, quips, and stories by America's best-selling humorist.
Author : Hans Warren
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780299209803
In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.
Author : Judson K. Cornelius
Publisher : St Pauls BYB
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Church work
ISBN : 9788171091515
Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0299213536
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
Author : Larry Wilde
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 9780804110969
America's beloved toastmaster shares his best material in a collection of jokes, gags, one-liners, humorous stories, and other crowd pleasers. Original.
Author : Larry Wilde
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780786002542
Collects jokes under such headings as "collegiate chowderheads," "national knuckeheads," and "foreign fatheads"
Author : Arthur Roy Eckardt
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781412834100
The work includes many of Dr. Eckardt's own fanciful stories, essays, and verses as well as material derived from student malapropisms, from children, and from professional humorists and comedians. Appearing at a time of burgeoning scholarly and popular interest in the domain of humor, Sitting in the Earth and Laughing shows how humor and laughter lie within the realm of human mysteries--together with tragedy, suffering, and love--that can be comprehended and relished.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Author : Larry Wilde
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2000-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780945040033
Author : Pierre Bayard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1596917148
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.