Humor & Satire
epub | | | Author:Nick Hornby

NINE The party invitations have been sent out, and most evenings now David and GoodNews lock themselves away in David’s study to finesse their plan of attack. I attempted to ...
( Category: Contemporary December 31,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Nick Hornby

TWENTY Will loved driving around London. He loved the traffic, which allowed him to believe he was a man in a hurry and offered him rare opportunities for frustration and ...
( Category: Humorous December 31,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Nick Hornby

FIFTEEN I’m introduced to Anna. Dick brings her to the pub on a night when Barry isn’t around. She’s small, quiet, polite, anxiously friendly, and Dick obviously adores her. He ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 1913-12-31 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

I had seen Fyne come striding out of the hotel door. The intelligent girl, without staying to ask questions, walked away from me quietly down one street while I hurried ...
( Category: Classics December 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald E. Westlake & Donald E Westlake

( Category: Mystery December 30,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Jane Maffini

Seventeen I woke up in a good mood, which doesn't happen often. In honour of the occasion, I made three resolutions. First, not to let the wedding preparations annoy me; ...
( Category: British & Irish December 30,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Malcolm Bradbury

VIII The seminar room where Howard meets this weekly class, Socsci 4.17, is an interior room without windows, lit by artificial light. The room is a small one; on three ...
( Category: Contemporary December 30,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Adams [Adams, Douglas]

FOOTNOTES This final programme in the first series was recorded on 28 February 1978. The pressures of the final deadline were evident from the fact that we no longer had ...
( Category: Performing Arts December 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-17 | Author:Jeremy Blaustein [Blaustein, Jeremy]

With no shade, I feel the full weight of the summer sun as I emerge from Tina Louise. I close her door with kid gloves. She is the only car ...
( Category: Humorous December 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:McManus, Patrick F. [McManus, Patrick F.]

18 TULLY MET ANGIE at the hotel café shortly after five the next morning. “You’re a mighty early riser, Sheriff.” Tully pulled out a chair and sat down. “Yeah. And ...
( Category: Mystery December 30,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-02-27 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

Chapter 9 It was only after many hours of thought that it had flashed upon me that the simplest and safest way of removing the Little Nugget was to induce ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 30,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Adams

19 Although it has been said that on Earth alone in our Galaxy is Krikkit (or cricket) treated as fit subject for a game, and that for this reason the ...
( Category: Science Fiction December 30,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:DeLeon, Jana [DeLeon, Jana]

Chapter Twelve Despite the enormous hunk of pound cake I’d eaten at Gertie’s house—and not even counting the second serving—I felt my stomach rumble as I scaled Gertie’s back fence ...
( Category: Mystery December 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Smith, Alexander McCall [Smith, Alexander McCall]

Reading Party A lesser man – one who, unlike von Igelfeld, had not written a twelve-hundred-page treatise on Portuguese irregular verbs – might have been cast down by such a ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Thomas Berger [Berger, Thomas]

The critic immediately dropped his loaded fork, went to his armpit, and brought out a large automatic pistol. His first shot broke the glass in front and slightly to the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 29,2017 )