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The School for Scandal and Other Plays

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of all English comedy. This edition includes his most famous plays, The Rivals, The School for Scandal, and The Critic, as well as two lesser known musical plays, The Duenna and A Trip to Scarborough. A detailed introduction and notes on Sheridan's playhouses and critical inheritance make this... (more)

The Terrible Twos

by Ishmael Reed

The Terrible Twos is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing instant gratification--Americans. Ishmael Reed's sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too-believable future where mankind's fate depends upon a jolly old gent named St. Nicholas and a Risto-rasta dwarf named Black Peter, who together wreak mischievous havoc on Wall Street and in the Oval... (more)

The Last Days of Louisiana Red

by Ishmael Reed

When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's MUMBO JUMBO) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propogated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists, the Moochers. A HooDoo detective story and a comprehensive satire on the explosive politics of the... (more)

Notions Unlimited

by Robert Sheckley

Robot Who Looked Like Me

by Robert Sheckley

Bill Hicks

by Kevin Booth, Michael Bertin

Written by Bill Hicks' lifelong friend, producer and co-creator Kevin Booth, this book offers the inside story on a unique talent. Hicks was only along for the ride for a tragically short time, yet left an indelible mark on comedy enthusiasts and free-thinkers everywhere. Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution offers a rare fly-on-the-wall insight into the life of one of Britain's most loved US comedians. Adored in the UK... (more)

Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines

Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines

by Bill Hicks

'By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Kill yourselves, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good. Seriously, no, this is not a joke. "There's gonna be a joke coming..." There's no fucking joke coming, you are Satan's spawn, filling the world with bile and garbage, you are fucked and you are fucking us, kill yourselves, it's the only way to save your fucking soul. Kill... (more)

Notting Hell: A Novel

by Rachel Johnson

EVERY CITY HAS A NOTTING HELL . . . "A spot of extramarital nookie with a close neighbor is one thing. We're all grown-ups here. But selling a rare-to-the-market mid-Victorian house -- not merely a house but our children's ancestral family home -- on a communal garden, the sort of house that a banker would trample over his own grandmother to spend his bonus on -- is another thing entirely. It's wrong ." Meet... (more)

The Diary of a Madman and Other StoriesNikolai Gogol

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

by Nikolai Gogol

Includes five sories: The Diary of a Madman; The Nose; The Carriage; The Overcoat; Taras Bulba

Poor ThingsAlasdair Gray

Poor Things

by Alasdair Gray

The Classics ReclassifiedRichard Armour

The Classics Reclassified

by Richard Armour

Stepping Westward

by Malcolm Bradbury

A university in America sends for James, one of the original, English, Angry Young Men, to teach creative writing. He is no longer angry, but thinks a new life in the USA might give new life to his writing. When he reaches America, he doesn't get what he expected, but then, neither does America.

Rates of Exchange

by Malcolm Bradbury

Welcome to Slaka! A land of lake and forest, of beetroot and tractor, of cultural riches and bloody battlefields. Malcolm Bradbury's hilariously entertaining and witty novel, RATES OF EXCHANGE, introduces the small, eastern European country of Slaka. In less than two short weeks there, first-time visitor Dr Petworth manages to give a rather controversial lecture, get embroiled in the thorny thickets of sexual and... (more)

The Clockwork Testament, Or, Enderby's End

The Clockwork Testament, Or, Enderby's End

by Anthony Burgess

The long day wanes;: A Malayan trilogy

by Anthony Burgess

A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism. Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and... (more)

Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man

Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man

by Sir Henry Bashford

It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent conduct has either been torn down or is threatened with destruction; when every newspaper is daily reporting scenes of violence, divorce, and arson; when quite young girls... (more)

Best Of Bad Hemingway: Vol 1: choice entries from the harry's bar & american grill imitation hemingway competition

Best Of Bad Hemingway: Vol 1: choice entries from the harry's bar & american grill imitation hemingway competition

by Harry's Bar & American Grill

The rules of the competition are simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. A "Trophy Room" section here includes Papa parodies from the past by F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Raymond Chandler, et al. Introduction by George Plimpton; caricatures.

Lost World II: The End of the Third WorldMarcio Souza

Lost World II: The End of the Third World

by Ma?rcio Souza

In this baroque literary farce, Brazilian author Souza (Death Squeeze, 1992--not reviewed; etc.) employs an elegant, amusing, mock 19th-century style to spin a fabulistic, academic ``sequel of sorts'' to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. Creating it on the spot in answer to an inane newspaper interview, the narrator shares the plot of his latest project: Jane Challenger, a reporter for a London economics... (more)

Céline: Journey to the End of the Night (Landmarks of World Literature)

Céline: Journey to the End of the Night (Landmarks of World Literature)

by John Sturrock

This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on some of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces. Each book is devoted to a single work and provides... (more)

American Notes (Works of Charles Dickens)

American Notes (Works of Charles Dickens)

by Charles Dickens

American Notes is the fascinating travel journal of one of 19th century America's most celebrated tourists--Charles Dickens. A lively chronicle of his five-month trip around the United States in 1842, the book records the author's adventures journeying by steamboat and stagecoach as well as his impressions of everything from schools and prisons to table manners and slavery.

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