Títulos en Literatura y ficción

"Libro de mal amor" es la hilarante historia de los fracasos amorosos de un joven cuyo afán por alcanzar a la mujer de sus sueños lo lleva a convertirse en deportista, patinador, político universitario, vegetariano, judío y experto en ballet. Estas circunstancias lo llevan a vivir insospechadas y sorprendentes situaciones desarrolladas en la década de los 70 y principios de los 80.

Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn’t catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye, all Gary has to remember her by is the book she was reading: The Satsuma Complex. But when Brendan goes missing, Gary needs to track down the girl he now calls Satsuma to get some answers. And so begins Gary’s quest, through the estates and pie shops of South London, to finally bring some love and excitement into his unremarkable life.

Seit seinem ersten Flohmarkt-Besuch sammelt Götz Alsmann Herrenmagazine aus den 40er und 50er Jahren. Gondel, Paprika, Neue Wiener Melange, Capriccio, Toxi...

Not only is Graham Peterson unlucky in his choice of careers, he's also been terrible with women throughout his adult life. That changes when he meets Alison on a work night out. Unfortunately for Graham, however, things change so drastically that within a month of dating Alison, he gets the news that he's about to become a father for the first time.

This book, Super Mario, is full of several rib-tickling Mario jokes that are sure to help you feel relaxed after a long day's work. The book also offers you a lot of interesting unknown facts about the Super Mario world. The book brings out the most fun moments of the Mario series and compels you to take a trip down memory lane. The jokes in this book revolve around almost every character in the Mario series. You are about to discover some of the most laughter-inducing Mario jokes of all time.

In het vaak dolkomische, volstrekt oneerbiedige Oom Oswald voert Roald Dahl Oswald Hendryks Cornelius ten tonele: de vrouwenverleider, bonvivant, operaminnaar, spinnen expert en wandelstokmaniak. Deze bizarre figuur komt op een briljant idee om in één klap ontstellend rijk te worden. Zijn geniale inval voert hij met veel verve uit, waarbij hij heel wat 'groten der aarde', van Marcel Proust tot Sigmund Freud, meedogenloos uitmelkt.

In the summer of 2005, Mookie Hooper—think Diane Sawyer in a training bra—investigates a girl who went missing from Camp Cartwright, while confronting the budding anxieties of tweendom.

Acclaimed author of The Adults Alison Espach’s short story "In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People" is an at-once hilarious and heart-breaking portrait of a dead woman’s marriage and the Volvo that stood in the middle of it all.

Nel 1949, l'ingegnere aeronautico dell'aviazione americana capitano Ed Murphy, osservando l'andamento dei propri esperimenti, ebbe a dire: "Se qualcosa può andar male, lo farà". Prova della "verità" di questa affermazione è il fatto che Ed Murphy, nel giro di pochi anni, è diventato famosissimo in tutto il mondo: non per le sue scoperte in aeronautica, del resto inesistenti, ma per quella frase, che immediatamente si diffuse sotto il nome di "Legge di Murphy".

Cette guerre inventée entre l'homme et l'animal c'est, en 1936, tout ce que le monde embrase : le nazisme, l'antisémitisme, la croyance dans le progrès ; ce livre brosse avec humour une satire des hommes et de leur société. Mêlant la parodie au fantastique, à la fois roman et conte philosophique, il se révèle, sous une apparente légèreté, extrêmement lucide et sombre. Étonnamment perspicace quant au devenir de l'Europe quelques années plus tard, "La Guerre des Salamandres" anticipe également les problèmes écologiques.

Octave Mirbeau n'est pas seulement un grand écrivain estampillé. C'est aussi un inquiéteur, un empêcheur de penser en rond, un infréquentable, un inclassable et un libertaire politiquement et littérairement incorrect. Dans le "Journal d'une femme de chambre", il donne la parole à une chambrière, ce qui est déjà subversif en soi, car un domestique, et plus encore une domestique femme, n'est pas supposé penser par lui-même, ni, a fortiori, tenir un journal et écrire comme Mirbeau.

In the sequel to the beloved Younger—now a hit Netflix series from the creator of Sex and the City starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff—Liza Miller is torn between two cities and two hearts when her bestselling novel is picked up by a major television network. New York or Los Angeles?...

Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly...

An early collection of short stories by England's greatest humorist, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves features eight of the most enjoyable and popular short stories of the early 20th century.

Tommaso, siciliano verace, cerca la donna della sua vita da quando era bambino: chi sarà quella giusta? La sensuale Greta, la timida Luna, l'irraggiungibile Paola o la sconosciuta ragazza senza nome incontrata per caso? Non potrai fare a meno di ridere delle avventure del protagonista. Sarai trascinato in una Sicilia lussureggiante, sentirai l'odore delle pietanze uscire dalle cucine; udrai il dialetto pronunciato dalle bocche dei paesani.

Francesco Piccolo torna a raccontare l'allegria degli istanti di cui è fatta la vita, ma questa volta prova a prenderli dalla parte sbagliata. Setacciando le giornate fino a scoprire come ogni contrattempo, anche il più seccante, nasconda qualcosa di impagabile: una scintilla folgorante di divertimento e di vitalità.

Imbarcatosi per conto della rivista "Harper's" su una crociera extralusso ai Caraibi, David Foster Wallace scrive un reportage che è ormai diventato un classico dell'umorismo contemporaneo. Affilato come un rasoio ma con leggerezza mercuriale, l'autore traccia qui una satira spietata sull'opulenza e il divertimento di massa della società americana di oggi.

Cosa succede quando la regina Elisabetta II scopre casualmente il piacere della lettura? Quando Sua Maestà, per finire in pace un libro, arriva in ritardo a tutti gli appuntamenti ufficiali? Scene esilaranti, descritte con ironia e raffinatezza, che si concludono con un grande colpo di scena finale.

Anna Shapiro's husband has been a hypochondriac for longer than she cares to remember. Now Dan is even frightened to make love, in case the strain gives him a heart attack. Anna is determined to find some fun soon - not to mention some decent sex.Then a sensational new book comes out, suggesting that women are just as capabale as men of having affairs purely for sexual pleasure. Could sex be like going for a facial, except you get an orgasm instead of your blackheads squeezed?

In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom...Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud - the hallmark of Lorrie Moore - land.