Humor genre books (129)


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Manalive by G. K. Chesterton EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Description:
Light-hearted work introduces Innocent Smith, a bubbly, eccentric gentleman of questionable character, into the lives of a group of young disillusioned people -- and the result is inspired, high-spirited nonsense.

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Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis PT

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
“Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas”, obra publicada em 1881, conta a história daquele que é considerado o maior hipócrita da literatura brasileira: Brás Cubas, personagem tipicamente burguês, sem objetivos e bastante contraditório que resolve escrever sua história depois de morto, tornando-se o primeiro autor defunto da humanidade. A narrativa é marcada pela desordem cronológica, o excesso de transgressões e reflexões – que muitas vezes suspendem a narrativa por muitos capítu... continue

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Missing Kissinger by Etgar Keret EN

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Country: Asia / Israel flag Israel
Description:
Featuring stories in which many of the characters are waiting for something to change their lives, 'Missing Kissinger' describes the search for ultimate happiness. As is often the case, the unexpected can - and usually does - occur.

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Mission to Kala by Mongo Beti EN

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Country: Africa / Cameroon flag Cameroon
Description:
American ed. (New York, Macmillan) published under title: Mission accomplished.

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Moccasin Square Gardens : Short Stories by Richard Van Camp EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
The characters of Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the sixtieth parallel. These stories are filled with in-laws, outlaws and common-laws. Get ready for illegal wrestling moves ("The Camel Clutch"), pinky promises, a doctored casino, extraterrestrials or "Sky People," love, lust and prayers for peace. While this is Van Camp's most hilarious short story collection, it's also haunted by the lurking presence of the Wheetago, human-devouring monsters of legend that have returned due to global warming and the greed of humanity. The stories in Moccasin Square ... continue

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Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams EN

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Description:
Adams is back with the amazing, unprecedented, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, has grown up on a remote world at the edge of the universe. Now she sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. . . . Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she's hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbors, and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the good life.

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My Family Right Or Wrong by Ephraim Kishon EN

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Country: Europe / Hungary flag Hungary
Description:
A collection of short humorous stories involving the author and his family.


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My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad EN

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Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century “God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon’s least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted. First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely successful television series, this beloved novel is now “Suggested Reading” in Azar Nafisi’s Readin... continue