Humor
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Tanizaki, Junichiro [Tanizaki, Junichiro]

"I WOULD join the song-thrush And sing my way up the river To meet spring in Miyako." Her semisen tuned to the proper low mode, O-hisa was singing an old ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:P.G. Wodehouse

CHAPTER IX THE summons to William Bannister’s sick-bed had come to Sally, oddly enough, at a moment when she had just been thinking of that sufferer; for it is a ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-08-31 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe & J. Gerald Kennedy

*Rousseau—Nouvelle Heloise. [Poe’s note] THE GOLD-BUG What ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. All in the Wrong Many years ago, I ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1944-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

At the beginning of May the engagement was announced. I saw the notice in the Continental Daily Mail and assumed that Rex had ‘squared the old man’. But things did ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-09-08 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

That was precisely Marilee’s situation, too, of course. There was nothing waiting for her outside the door of Gregory’s very comfortable dwelling except hunger and humiliation, no matter how meanly ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-08-14 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

Quarter of an hour hater both Basil and Mr Youkoumian were engaged in what seemed more important business. A morning’s routine at the Ministry of Modernization. ‘Now, look, Mister, I ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2009-12-26 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

14 'Have you seen Fink-Nottle?' he said. I didn't like the way he spoke or the way he was looking. The lips, I noted, were twitching, and the eyes glittered ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |pt | 2008-01-30 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"No, no, I am sure they were real friends." "Well, then, we must explore the matter of the girl. Do you know her?" "Everyone knows her. She is the beauty ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-07-14 | Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

January 9th The creature's vocabulary is being enriched by a new word every five minutes (on average) and, since this morning, by sentences. It is as if they had been ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:George Grossmith

We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of Mr Padge. Don’t care for him. Mr Burwin-Fosselton becomes a nuisance. Chapter XI NOVEMBER 20. Have seen nothing of ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-02 | Author:Tolstoy, Leo & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky [Tolstoy, Leo]

VII NIKITA, ever since he sat down, covered with sacking, behind the rear of the sleigh, had been sitting motionlessly. He, like all people who live with nature and know ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-08 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |zho | 1930-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

VIII TWO nights later Adam and Nina took Ginger to the party in the captive dirigible. It was not a really good evening. The long drive in Ginger’s car to ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-08-15 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK Mr. Silas Q. Scuddamore was a young American of a simple and harmless disposition, which was the more to his credit as ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:John Irving

8 Opportunity Knocks After the harvest at York Farm, the foreman asked Melony to stay on to help with the mousing. “We have to get the mice before the ground ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )