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silly and jeuvenile a fun book a hilarious silly romp set at totleigh towers'The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.' The Times (five best British comic novels)
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What do readers say about I Capture the Castle?
innocence and sweetness 1940s english style easy to move into brutally honest and funnyOne of the 20th Century's most beloved novels is still winning hearts!
I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over... More details on I Capture the Castle
I am sitting in the kitchen sink. That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with our dog’s blanket and the tea-cozy. I can’t say that I am really comfort...
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What do readers say about Three Men in a Boat—To Say Nothing of the Dog?
episodic and anecdotal short comic novel shaggy dog story style 19th century british comedyOne of the best-loved classics of all time, Three Men in a Boat is a hilarious account of three friends and their dog on a holiday trip on the Thames in England. Harris, George, Jerome (the narrator), and Montmorency (the fox terrier) decide to take ... More details on Three Men in a Boat—To Say Nothing of the Dog
Three Invalids. — Sufferings of George and Harris. — A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies. — Useful prescriptions. — Cure for liver complaint in children. — We agree that we are overworked...
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What do readers say about My Man Jeeves?
light humour and satire short story collections light and amusing read funny, fluffy, substance-free entertainmentMy Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, a... More details on My Man Jeeves
Jeeves—my man, you know—is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him. On broader lines he's like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the mar...
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What do readers say about Why Did I Ever?
single paragraph numbered chapters not british humor I never found myself lost not linearAfter a ten-year silence, Mary Robison has emerged with a novel so beguiling and funny that it has brought critics and her live-reading audiences to their feet. Why Did I Ever takes us along on the darkest of private journeys. The story, told by a wo... More details on Why Did I Ever
I end up at Appletree—the grocery—in the dead of the night. I’m not going to last long shopping, though, because this song was bad enough when what’s-her-name sang it. And who are all these people at ...
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What do readers say about Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day?
light and fun light-hearted and well-paced fixes everyone's lives early-century chick litMiss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn.
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Miss Pettigrew pushed open the door of the employment agency and went in as the clock struck a quarter past nine. She had, as usual, very little hope, but today the Principal greeted her with a more c...
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What do readers say about Hyperbole and a Half?
graphic novel memoir graphic novel autobiography hybrid comic memoir stream of consciousness#1 New York Times Bestseller
"Funny and smart as hell" (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations.
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To reiterate, no matter how much pepper you eat, it won’t undo the ludicrous amount of salt you ate before it. The only thing you are accomplishing by eating pepper is making your mouth taste like pep...
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What do readers say about The Pursuit of Love?
witty and satirical lightly autobiographical comic novel a story of life upper-class british farceOne of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written, Nancy Mitford's classic is now a major BBC and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James, Andrew Scott and Dominic West
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THERE is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh. The table is situated, as it was, is now, and ever shall be, in the hall, in front of a...
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What do readers say about Love in a Cold Climate?
a sparkling romantic comedy incestuous little trollop great little novel farce, not comedyA sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.
Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with h... More details on Love in a Cold Climate
IAM OBLIGED TO begin this story with a brief account of the Hampton family, because it is necessary to emphasise the fact once and for all that the Hamptons were very grand as well as very rich. A sho...
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What do readers say about Life Among the Savages?
humorous 1953 memoir wit and style funny, interesting, and relatable raising 4 childrenIn a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America's celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children.
In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town Ameri... More details on Life Among the Savages
Our house is old, and noisy, and full. When we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books; I expect that when we finally overflow and move out again we will have perhaps twenty ch...
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