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What do readers say about Emma?
ironic and satirical well-intentioned but clueless romantic comedy of manners well-plotted and satisfying storyEmma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and self-knowledge, and... More details on Emma
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What do readers say about The Comedy of Errors?
a shakespearean sit-com a fun farce a short farce two sets of twinsTwo sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest dramatic efforts, the play abounds in his trademark c... More details on The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors was first printed in 1623, some thirty years after it was written, in the first Folio edition of Shakespeare’s collected plays (referred to below as F). This is the only authorita...
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What do readers say about To Say Nothing of the Dog?
lively and often funny impenetrable nattering prose time travel book a comedy of errorsFrom Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . .
Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940... More details on To Say Nothing of the Dog
A Search Party-Wartime Headgear-The Problem of Nepotism-Royal Headgear-The Bishop’s Bird Stump Is Missing-Jumble Sales-A Clue to Its Whereabouts-Astronomical Observations-Dogs-A Cat-Man’s Best Friend-...
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What do readers say about The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disap...?
wry and witty faux-naive prose style real feel-good fiction whimsical, humorous swedish importA larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel - perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove.
The international publishing sensation - more than six million copies sold worldwide... More details on The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disap...
Allan Karlsson hesitated as he stood there in the flower bed that ran along one side of the Old Folks’ Home. He was wearing a brown jacket with brown trousers and on his feet he had a pair of brown in...
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What do readers say about The Importance of Being Earnest?
to be sincere witty high-brow humor his final play wit and humorA farce, one of the best ever written, cleverly constructed and delightfully amusing. There is only the slightest attempt at the sketching of character, while most of the personages are at best but caricatures; the Wilde's skill is brought to bear ch... More details on The Importance of Being Earnest
ALGERNON. I'm sorry for that, for your sake. I don't play accurately – any one can play accurately – but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I ke...
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What do readers say about The Restraint of Beasts?
deadpan black comedy precise and deadpan a very odd laborers putting up fencing'Tam and I took hold of Mr McCrindle and lowered him into the hole, feet first. We decided to leave his cap on.'
Fencers Tam, Richie and their ever-exasperated English foreman are forced to move from rural Scotland to England for work. After a disa... More details on The Restraint of Beasts
“You should have said.” Donald rose from behind his desk and moved to the skirting board, where a radiator pipe emerged. He turned a stop-tap several times, clockwise, before settling again in his cha...
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What do readers say about The Code of the Woosters?
silly and jeuvenile a fun book a hilarious silly romp set at totleigh towers'The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.' The Times (five best British comic novels)
'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you have... More details on The Code of the Woosters
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you’re going to die in about five minutes. On the previous night, I had given a little dinner at the Dr...
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What do readers say about Improbable Fortunes?
wes anderson vibe comedy one of my all time favorite books forest gumpIn Improbable Fortunes, Jeffrey Price takes us on a wild ride into Vanadium, a dusty, down-on-its-heels mining town in southwest Colorado -- where it would be fair to assume that nothing has ever happened.
But you'd be wrong.... More details on Improbable Fortunes
By morning, several theories would circulate Vanadium as to why their town had been destroyed. Vanadium’s First Church of Thessalonians would put forth the notion that the Almighty had finally gotten ...
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What do readers say about A Damsel in Distress?
comedy of errors classic a silly delight classic early wodehouse there are enough laughsA damsell in distress - an Almost Blandings novel set in Belphi Castle, Hampshire and a two week house party for the son-and-heir's 21st.... More details on A Damsel in Distress
Inasmuch as the scene of this story is that historic pile, Belpher Castle, in the county of Hampshire, it would be an agreeable task to open it with a leisurely description of the place, followed by s...
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What do readers say about The Martian?
an adventure story science and the survival aspects thriller/suspense hilarious and rivetingA survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott, starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain.
I'm stranded on Mars.
I have no way to communicate with Earth.
I'm in a habitat designed to last... More details on The Martian
For the record…I didn’t die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did, and I can’t blame them. Maybe there’ll be a day of national mourning for me, and my Wikipedia page will say, “Mark W...
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