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What do readers say about Northanger Abbey?
lighter and more amusing very campfire story-esque lightly satirical tone not too predictableWhile enjoying a six weeks' stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. Thanks to a new literary diet of the sensational and the macabre, Catherine travels to Northanger Abbey fully ... More details on Northanger Abbey
NO ONE WHO had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition,...
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What do readers say about Cold Comfort Farm?
clever and funny jaunty and optimistic laugh out loud hilarious a great satireThe deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" (The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. When the recently orphaned socialite F... More details on Cold Comfort Farm
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spa...
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What do readers say about Watchmen?
depressing as hell fun and outlandish intelligence and intricacy moving, scary, and timelyA hit HBO original series, Watchmen the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold ... More details on Watchmen
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What do readers say about JR?
almost all dialogue a great satire of the free market magnificent a searching investigation of the commercialization of contemporary lifeA National Book Award-winning satire about the unchecked power of American capitalism, written more than three decades before the 2008 financial crisis. At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneak... More details on JR
—Why, it’s just like that story about Father’s dying wish to have his bust sunk in Vancouver harbor, and his ashes sprinkled on the water there, about James and Thomas out in the rowboat, and both of ...
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What do readers say about Gargantua and Pantagruel?
hilariously deranged and absurd crappy medieval porn teenage boy comedies a sweeping epicA masterly new translation of Rabelais's robust scatalogical comedy... More details on Gargantua and Pantagruel
The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart's translation. Footnotes initialled 'M.' are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other...
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What do readers say about The Time Regulation Institute?
spectacular turkish modernist novel bureaucracy and modernisation the 40s-50s turkey bureaucracy a strange turkish satireAhmet Hamdi Tanpinar'in siiri sembolist bir ifade uzerine kurulmustur. Ayni anlatim tarzi romanlarina da zaman zaman sirayet eder. "Saatleri Ayarlama Ensitusu" toplumumuzun bu degisme sureci icindeki durumunu, fertten yola cikarak topluma varan bir t... More details on The Time Regulation Institute
Following my discharge from the army, I returned to Istanbul, where I found the city and its people much changed. Signs of poverty were everywhere; chaos and desperation reigned. My father had died in...
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What do readers say about Politically Correct Bedtime Stories?
amusing little book politically correct angle more enlightened fairy tales satire is reasonably well-aimed'Essential reading for adults of all ages . . . the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC' Observer In this bestselling classic, James Finn Garner has rewritten classic stories for more enlightened times; from Snow ... More details on Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
There once was a young person named Red Ridin g Hood who lived with he r mother on the edge of a large wood. One day he r mother asked her to take a basket of fresh fruit an d mineral water to he r gr...
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What do readers say about The Magic Christian?
neither funny nor entertaining prankish satire parody a cruel and unfunny wodehouseOne of the funniest, cruelest, and most savagely revealing books about American life ever written, The Magic Christian has been called Terry Southern's masterpiece.
Guy Grand is an eccentric billionaire-the last of the big spenders-determined to crea... More details on The Magic Christian
WHEN NOT TENDING New York holdings, Guy Grand was generally, as he expressed it, “on the go.” He took cross-country trips by train: New York to Miami, Miami to Seattle—that sort of thing—always on a s...
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What do readers say about No Way to Treat a First Lady?
politics and the judiciary funny and smart a great political satire fairly predictable and boringA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the ambitious First Lady of the United States (and known in the tabloids as "Lady Bethmac"), is on trial for the death of her philandering husband, and the only man who can save her i... More details on No Way to Treat a First Lady
There was no ambiguity as to who "her" might be, not after the force twelve media storm of the previous weeks. The country was convulsed. Seven-eighths of the nation's front pages and the evening news...
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What do readers say about Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven?
mental illness book fascinating in parts stark, nuanced tale a fascinating true storyThey were young, brilliant, and bold. They set out to conquer the world. But the world had other plans for them.
Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's new memoir is a hilarious and harrowing journey, a modern heart of darkness filled with Communis... More details on Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
Our tray tables in their upright positions, our carry-ons stashed in the overhead bins, the plastic seat frames rattled violently. Below us, the earth went haywire. And yet the flight attendants remai...
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