Best of
Comedy

1967

The World of Jeeves


P.G. Wodehouse - 1967
    Contains the books Carry On, Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves and Very Good, Jeeves and the short stories Jeeves Makes an Omelette and Jeeves and the Greasy Bird.

Jeeves Takes Charge (Jeeves #3.1)


P.G. Wodehouse - 1967
    Wodehouse. Edward Duke brilliantly performs an entire cast of characters in these delightful stories. Adapted from Duke's stage show. Unabridged

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain


Mark Twain - 1967
    Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well as some delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, this compilation also includes darker works written in the author’s twilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain’s artistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.From the Trade Paperback edition.Jim Smiley and his jumping frog --The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief --Cannibalism in the cars --Journalism in Tennessee --The story of the good little boy who did not prosper --How I edited an agricultural paper once --Political ecoonomy --A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it --The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut --Punch, brothers, punch! --Jim Baker's blue-jay yarn --The stolen white elephant --The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm --The private history of a campaign that failed --Extracts from Adam's diary --The man that corrupted Hadleyburg --The $30,000 bequest --Eve's diary --Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven --Letter from the recording angel --The great dark --The second advent ; Appendix War times --Private history of the "Jumping Frog" story --How to tell a story.

Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy


Randolph Stow - 1967
    So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat, the Siamese, suggested he became a bushranger, and his horse, Red Ned, offered to help. But it wasn't very easy, especially when Trooper O'Grady kept putting him in prison.So it was just as well that in the end he found GOLD!A brilliantly good-humoured and amusing history of the exploits of Captain Midnite and his five good animal friends.

McBroom and the Big Wind


Sid Fleischman - 1967
    Josh McBroom relates how he and his family harness the rambunctious prairie wind.

Up the Garden Path


Norman Thelwell - 1967
    This tongue in cheek cartoon guide covers all aspects of gardening, from how to make a hole in the frozen fish pond to how to get your mower out of the shed, and includes a calendar of essential work throughout the year.

It All Started With Stones and Clubs: Being a Short History of War and Weaponry from Earliest Times to the Present, Noting the Gratifying Progress Made


Richard Armour - 1967
    

1001 Ways to Beat the Draft


Tuli Kupferberg - 1967
    Grope J. Edgar Hoover in the silent Halls of Congress.2. Get thee to a nunnery....1001. Bring peace to Viet Nam: strike joy into the universe.