Author: Larry WildePublisher:
ISBN: 9780945040002
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection of the funniest gags, quips, and stories by America's best-selling humorist.
The Larry Wilde Library of Laughter
Author: Larry WildePublisher:
ISBN: 9780945040002
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection of the funniest gags, quips, and stories by America's best-selling humorist.
Library of Laughter
Author: Larry WildePublisher: Ivy Books
ISBN: 9780804110969
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
America's beloved toastmaster shares his best material in a collection of jokes, gags, one-liners, humorous stories, and other crowd pleasers. Original.
Secretly Inside
Author: Hans WarrenPublisher: Terrace Books
ISBN: 9780299209803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.
When You're Up to Your Eyeballs in Alligators
Author: Larry WildePublisher:
ISBN: 9780945040033
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Church Humour
Author: Judson K. CorneliusPublisher: St Pauls BYB
ISBN: 9788171091515
Category : Church work
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest Joke Book
Author: Larry WildePublisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786002542
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Collects jokes under such headings as "collegiate chowderheads," "national knuckeheads," and "foreign fatheads"
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Author: Pierre BayardPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596917148
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.
Lowering the Bar
Author: Marc GalanterPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299213536
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
Humor
Author: Sitting in the Earth and Laughing
Author: Arthur Roy EckardtPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412834100
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The work includes many of Dr. Eckardt's own fanciful stories, essays, and verses as well as material derived from student malapropisms, from children, and from professional humorists and comedians. Appearing at a time of burgeoning scholarly and popular interest in the domain of humor, Sitting in the Earth and Laughing shows how humor and laughter lie within the realm of human mysteries--together with tragedy, suffering, and love--that can be comprehended and relished.