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.

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

    The twenty-six postcards (one for each letter of the alphabet) feature Gorey's illustrations of unusual and biologically questionable creatures, each one described by a typically witty Gorey couplet.

    What will the people do when a Hungry Thing comes to town? This hilarious book will get kids excited about reading and words as they fall in love with the Hungry Thing's crazy antics!

    It seemed like a simple enough problem at the beginning, but more and more complications set in—in the forms of a donkey, a sheep, and a cow, to name a few, until it looked as though an entire farm had come to life right there in Peter’s house!But with the proper, if overwhelming, application of true folk wisdom, the trouble was ended. Peter’s house was finally quiet.Or was it?“This is a funny book, a very funny book.”—Publishers Weekly “The too-crowded house of a familiar old tale becomes a too noisy house in this entertaining picture-book story.”—Booklist

    Nonsense poems in French, when pronounced, sound like English nursery rhymes, such as Humpty Dumpty and Jack Sprat.

    And of course, the heartwarming content that charmed the world, sold millions, and launched the career of Charles M. Schulz remains untouched. On every spread there’s a tiny tidbit of wisdom from one of the gang, along with one of Schulz’s irresistible drawings.  It’s a trip down memory lane that every Peanuts fan will cherish.

    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.

    It is no ordinary lexicon. It defies any description. Unless one were to call it the Webster of the Weird. But it is so much more than that. For it nimbly describes and defines all the inhabitants of that slightly delirious demimonde of dragons, sorcerers, and white knights that really existed a spell or so ago. When the world still believed in heroes and magic. And we did too."

    In his macabre, funny way, he has given Mother Goose a dimension even she would shudder at -- but only for a moment, because the wit and candor of it all are too irresistible and insanely comic to take exception to. Addams's style and originality make his tampering with tradition completely and hilariously acceptable.""-- Chicago Tribune

    When Bendemolena wears a tin pot on her head what she hears gets so mixed up that she and her brothers and sisters iron the meat, nail the chairs to the wall, and invite in a bear and a horse.

    Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but "sausage-shaped." With the help of his newly found soul named "Joe," he grapples with the riddles andcontradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him.The last of O'Brien's novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O'Brien's other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.

    They all became involved in one of Father's pet projects--the rebuilding of the zoo.This true story of a family and a town is entertaining, "depicting family solidarity, town spirit, and the bright side of an era too often considered a period of gloom!" It is a boo for young and old.

    

    Follow these simple steps, and you can be a bonafide nonconformist....

    Imagine our intrepid beagle's surprise when he awakes to find a nest of twigs and fluf atop him, complete with two chicks not yet ready to take wing. Follow the crazy first flight of these gawky fledglings as they leave the nest, swirling in a loopy fashion quite reminiscent of Woodstock's erratic flight pattern.

    

    It tells how one mother and one father bring up eleven bewitched, beguiling, bedeviling children.For Pat Buck pandemonium begins shortly after 6 a.m. As the mother of this ravenous broad of six boys and five girls, she must make a typical breakfast consisting of a half gallon of oatmeal, two dozen scrambled eggs, two pounds of bacon, and two loaves of toast. Along the way she helps dress the younger ones, inspects up to 110 fingernails, 22 hands and ears (behind and inside), and 11 necks, and hopefully gets the children off to school on time. On occasion Pat and the kids don't make it. At such times Pat says a rosary for the Pope to guide him to a practical decision on The Pill.But the fun has only just begun, like the time Daddy Buck almost landed in jail because Pat took the children on an innocent safari to buy shoes and underpants. Or the childless scoutmaster who prepared all the Scouts for earthquakes and floods but forgot to prepare them for going to bed on time, washing the dishes or the daddies' cars, or mowing the lawn. Or the day Pat set out for her annual vacation in the hospital and almost didn't get there because of the crush and excitement of her own kids, her neighbors' kids, two grandmothers, and an expectant father. Or Pat's secret formula for toilet training which could teach Dr. Spock a lesson but which misfired because bedlam struck again.In this charming, funny book, love, good sense, and a whacky zest for living reign together. Mothers and fathers of all 2.2 kid families will want to read But Daddy! to each other, providing their children or the grandparents do not grab it first. If you're old enough to remember Life with Father and Cheaper by the Dozen, then you're young enough to be enchanted by the most hilarious family story published in years.

    This is a book designed especially for those Hosts and Hostesses who are too drunk to crawl to a restaurant or even the corner discotheque. This is a collection of recipes that are a delight to the starving palate but not necessarily a joy to behold.

    Double Dactyl

    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.

    

    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.

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    Between these covers you'll find the hilarious work of the most gifted contemporary comedic talents: Dan Greenburg, Woody Allen, Art Buchwald, Richard Armour, Allan Sherman, Jean Shepherd, Roger Price, Shepherd Mead, P. G. Wodehouse, Ray Russell, Harvey Kurtzman and many more.The subject matter ranges from Chinese Communists to British fox hunting, from French guidebooks to American sex manuals, from boys' books to campy film musicals to Lady Chatterly's Lover. In this bracing book, the comic spirit takes the shape of astringent stories, pungent playlets, acerbic articles; and the form of lampoon, parody, pasquinade, burlesque--all the forms, in fact, of humor and satire, and all at their most risible best.Playboy prizes its humorists so highly that it annually bestows a $1,000 Best Humor Award upon the author of the year's most outstanding drollery in this field. To date, three such awards have been presented, and all three winning contributions are in this book, including How to Be a Jewish Mother by Dan Greenburg, which was presented by Playboy prior to its becoming a sensational best seller.Although "the goal of Satire is reform," as W. H. Auden says, and the writers in this book have not shirked their responsibility as social satirists, they have wisely and artfully camouflaged their underlying reformist goals with the best protective coloration of all--sheer entertainment, an essential too often ignored by the crusader brand of satirist.Laughter has always been a vital ingredient of Playboy magazine, in cartoons, jokes and special pictorial satires, but possibly the most pertinent Playboy humor and ultimately the most satisfying laughter is that provoked by the written word--words of wise and wicked wit, such as those in the brimming, bubbling volume you now hold in your hands.So what are you waiting for? Open it up and join the fun!

    This was published in the US as 'The Great American Hoax', and it is the story of SINA, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (no, not an error).Exposing the gullibility of the media, who thought they were for real, SINA rose, had its day, then descended, but for some of us, the inspiration lives on.

    They're funny, they're touching, they're no holds barred honest.They cover the whole range of human relations with God from sympathy, doubt, speculation, right down to disbelief and plain irritation.Spelling and grammar have not been corrected for what they say, they say better as they are.Dear God are boys better than girls I know you are one but try to be fairSylvia.