Resultados para "A Christmas Carol" en Comedia y humor

Annabelle has always been able to fix things with a click of her fingers and a few choice words, but this Christmas, something is different. This Christmas, she realizes that the girl she has raised from birth, Jane, has grown and has a life of her own now, which includes her ultra-rich biological mother, the former bag lady Dennie Bin. It also includes the son of Annabelle’s worse foe.

Todd blasts in from the kitchen with a daiquiri in hand. He sets the drink on the table and two things happen simultaneously; Todd jumps onto Bill’s knee and holds out his hand for his twenty bucks. Charles jumps up on the table and buries his beak in Bill’s daiquiri. Every time Bill tries to take a drink, the dog growls and stiffens its legs. If Bill pulls on the glass, the dog’s growl goes up in pitch. If he stops, the pitch goes down. After a bit of practice, Bill succeeds in playing ‘Jingle Bells’ on the furious dog.

Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels, but also for his short stories, particularly "A Christmas Carol." In the latter genre, interestingly, these stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for they were serialized in magazines at the Christmas season.

“This book is a bonbon for any baby boomer. . . . Lamb gets Felix’s voice just right, and he does a spot-on job of evoking the special joys and trials of parochial school in the ‘60’s…Put a bow on this book and warm somebody’s heart.” — St. Petersburg Times Wally Lamb, the...

Twenty-five years after its original publication, Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia’s Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups is back, and do we and our kids all need it. In a series of light-hearted multiple choice quizzes, alternate scenarios, and true-or-false questions, Delia Ephron and...

Oracle Street, Norwich, has just been labelled by the press as 'The worst place to live in Norfolk this Christmas?' and morale is at an all-time low. In the past few weeks, presents have been going missing from residents' homes, and there are rumours going back and forth that maybe its one of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer to a pickle magnate, they are defined by the virtual worlds of religious extremism, financial gambling, drugs and internet obsession they...