Humor Anthology

This anthology contains 10 quirky and mostly humorous short stories. It contains the following stories: "Jared Pond and the Temper Complication", "Jared Pond's First Mission", "Jared Pond and the Yakuza Connection", "The Soccer Date", "The Pursuit of Dangerous Dave's Treasure", "Jared Pond and the Swedish Fish Factory", "The Disgruntled Soccer Terrorist", "Jared Pond and the Quirky Malaysian Agent", "Kingsley's Quest in India", and "Jared Pond and the Tamil Guru".

It isn't every day a sexy demigod throws a pissed-off Cupid onto psychologist Matilda Schmidt's couch and informs her the fate of the world depends on her ability to get him off his diapered ass and back to helping people fall in love.

"El contrabajo", "Los banos publicos", "La dama del perrito", "Borrachera contínua", "El vengador", "El marido", "La suerte femenina". Anton Chejov, hijo de un tendero fracasado y nieto de un siervo, comenzo a escribir historias humoristicas como medio de sostenerse y continuar sus estudios medicos.

Uno dei più famosi racconti cechoviani in cui si narra una storia ancora attualissima: uno squallido ospedale di provincia, i matti trattati come bestie, uno strano filosofo paranoico e un dottore in crisi con la professione e con il mondo intero. L'epilogo tragi-comico è in puro stile cechoviano.

Christmas is being celebrated in style at Purley Hall in Hampshire because renowned actress, Dame Pamela Harcourt is holding a special Jane Austen conference. Everybody's there: Katherine and Warwick, Robyn and Dan, Kay, Adam and Gemma, and Sarah and Mia. Oh, and Mrs. Soames.

All my life, I've been a man-magnet. Everywhere I go, guys drop at my feet. After all, I have a perfect body, insatiable sex drive, and a razor wit. I'm also modest (can't you tell?). Trouble is, I've never been lucky in love. I only attract guys who forget their wallets and show up to dates wearing #@%#-stained clothes. With my best friend's wedding around the corner, I finally decide enough is enough.

Un caleidoscopio di incontri inattesi, di racconti folgoranti, di ironiche riflessioni. Con scrittura cristallina e rapidi tratti, Carofiglio disegna personaggi memorabili e, in un gioco di specchi tra verità e finzione, allestisce fulminee messe in scena dove appaiono intensi frammenti di mondo. Un piccolo gioiello in cui si alternano storie amare a situazioni comiche, osservate con impareggiabile sguardo critico e grande umanità.

Am I the Asshole? is the hilarious book of all the funniest "am I the asshole" moments. As read by Patrick Kelly Shannon, this laugh-a-minute audiobook will have you questioning the life choices of some definite assholes in this life. This book comes with absolutely no judgment on the stories featured and is 100 percent up for you to decide what you think of the characters featured within the short stories.

If you’ve ever had the feeling that, at heart, most people are just really terrible, then this is the book for you - a collection of short stories about awful people doing awful things to one another. In these dark and satirical tales, you’ll witness the fallout from a disgraced pop star, the perils of cancel culture, the rabbit hole of COVID conspiracies, the merciless hunt for revenge, and one billionaire’s plan to save the world.

This collection of stories by the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) contains a selection of brilliant stories that show listeners just why he is considered among the best short story writers of all time. Enjoy three of his best: "The Overcoat", "The Lost Letter", and "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden".

How would you describe life? If you bumped into God and it asked you to give an overview of what life on Earth was like, what would you do? You wouldn’t tell it one long, drawn-out story. Not at all. You’d give it a mixed bag of quick stories to give it a good taste of what life is. If that day did somehow come about, and you did find yourself talking nonsense to an infinite being on a lovely summer’s day, I’m sure you’d never again forget to keep yourself hydrated.

The 10 stories vary; some are funny, some more serious but they are all about real people in real situations, so the listener can identify with them. In some a cheat or a bully gets their comeuppance which is always very satisfactory for both writer and listener.

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here, he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightful humorous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts, including "The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa", "The Exorcism That Failed", and more.

Das Beste aus 20 Jahren vom Shootingstar der deutschen Literatur: Geschichten über die schwäbische Heimat, das Berliner Exil und das ferne Amerika. Komisch und melancholisch. Vielschichtig und pointiert. Für den literarischen Genuss und den großen Lesespaß. "Seine Geschichten zu lesen ist ganz einfach immer wieder ein sehr großes Vergnügen." Horst Evers. Gerade als seine Mutter den Führerschein macht, lässt der Gemeinderat eine Fußgängerampel aufstellen, mit fatalen Folgen für Mensch und Tier.

DJ Ass Maggots is a pseudonym for a doctor practicing Internal Medicine with an emphasis on geriatric care somewhere in Southern California. He lives a lifestyle of excess that would make most of his peers jealous - that is, if they knew. When he was born, when he will die, where he was born, and where he grew up are really not that important, but most authors display these facts. Well, if you really want to know, he received his MD in 1998 and his Internal Medicine Board Certification in 2001.

द्वारकानाथ संझगिरी यांच्या निवडक, विनोदाची झालर असणाऱ्या आणि जात जाता चावट चिमटा काढणाऱ्या लेखांचा भन्नाट पुष्प गुच्छ.

Daha çok ozan olarak tanıdığımız Hasan Hüseyin'in mizah öykülerini topladığı kitaplarından "Made in Turkey" içinde yer alan beş öyküyü burada bulacaksınız. AleladeHarikulade, Burdan Çıktık, Operada Bir Vatandaş, Cüzzamlılara Mahsustur ve "Zıpçıktı" Osman Bey, eleştirel ve ironik bir mizah anlayışını daha dün yazılmışcasına sunuyor bizlere.

Alle Jahre wieder macht sich die halbe Republik kurz vor den Feiertagen auf den Weg zur buckligen Verwandtschaft. Als ob der Besuch bei Tante und Onkel nicht schon schlimm genug wäre, quälen wir uns stundenlang durch den Stau, fluchen über den ICE in verkehrter Wagenreihung oder sitzen auf dem verschneiten Rollfeld fest, während unser Airbus zum wiederholten Mal enteist wird. Und das alles umgeben von nicht minder nervigen Nichten, Neffen, Omas und Opas, die sich ebenfalls nicht vor dem Besuch bei der Familie zu drücken wussten.

Nove personaggi della Napoli di De Crescenzo che per le loro particolarità sono usciti in fantasia ovvero sono un pò matti: un fatto quasi comune in una città pirotecnicamente creativa.

Un abogado que tiene su oficina en Wall Street narra la historia de Bartleby, un peculiar escribiente, quien un día, de repente, deja de escribir amparándose en su famosa fórmula: "Preferiría no hacerlo". Nadie sabe de dónde viene este escribiente, prefiere no decirlo, y su futuro es incierto pues prefiere no hacer nada que altere su situación. El abogado, desconcertado, no sabe cómo actuar ante esta rebeldía, pero al mismo tiempo se siente atraído por tal misteriosa actitud. Su compasión hacia el desobediente escribiente, hace de este personaje un ser tan extraño como el propio Bartleby.