Humor & Satire
epub |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Jerome K. Jerome [Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)]

HIS EVENING OUT. The evidence of the park-keeper, David Bristow, of Gilder Street, Camden Town, is as follows: I was on duty in St. James's Park on Thursday evening, my ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-08-01 | Author:George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith [Grossmith, George]

CHAPTER XIV Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two good jokes. I get an enormous rise in my salary. Lupin speculates successfully and starts ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

"How?" "Oh, nothing! but if I wasn't afraid of prosing, I might tell another story about an old boot in a pieman's loft, contracting there between sun and oven an ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-12-08 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

"They are indeed at an end. I am sorry I cannot sell you the property." "What?" cried Mr. Barker, starting to his feet. "Mr. Buck has spoken correctly," said the ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

"`I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled. And perched me on this curious place, A happy English child.' "Dr. Emerson Eames having briefly complied, ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub | | 2009-11-15 | Author:Shelly Laurenston [Laurenston, Shelly]

Gwen caught her lip between her teeth and peeked around that pillow like a nervous virgin. She watched, barely able to breathe, as Lock hooked his arms under her knees ...
( Category: Paranormal December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Fernando Royuela [Fernando Royuela]

Slim had a very hierarchical, Manichean view of the world according to which any act or individual was judged in advance and slotted into one of the critical categories that, ...
( Category: United States December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:EC Sheedy [Sheedy, EC]

Chapter 19 Henry made Tommy Black, with his pit boss slick and silk suit, within ten minutes of stepping into the Sandstone’s casino area. Now all he had to do ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Adena Halpern [Halpern, Adena]

the point of no return A moment comes in everyone’s life when they realize they’re old. I’m not talking about the day you see your first gray hair or the ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:Langston Hughes

AFRICAN MORNING MAURAI took off his calico breechcloth of faded blue flowers. He took two buckets of water and a big bar of soap into the backyard and threw water ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Langston Hughes

SIMPLY SIMPLE “Almost nobody in this world ever does everything right,” said Simple, “so everybody ought to have the right to do some things wrong—including Adam Powell. Powell is a ...
( Category: Contemporary December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:Langston Hughes

Intermarriage “I BEEN reading in the papers about Sammy Davis turning himself into a Jew,” said Simple, “but in his pictures, he still looks colored to me.” “Because a man ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-31 | Author:Dale Mayer

Chapter 9 Dani had finally filled up enough to know that she was going to make it another day. She wasn’t so sure of Charmin, as he’d finished his second ...
( Category: Romantic Comedy December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:COHEN, JEFFREY [Cohen, Jeffrey]

Chapter Five It had taken a good deal of maneuvering to get me an interview with Madeline Crosby. After all, it was Legs Gibson’s rumor-mongering that had kept her off ...
( Category: Mystery December 15,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2003-11-15 | Author:A Farewell to Legs: An Aaron Tucker Mystery

Chapter Five It had taken a good deal of maneuvering to get me an interview with Madeline Crosby. After all, it was Legs Gibson’s rumor-mongering that had kept her off ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 15,2017 )