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Featuring twelve simple yet profound essays, Jerome K. Jerome's Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a humorous and clever collection. Each essay is crafted around a timeless and relatable issue, such as the unfortunately common inability to make decisions. On the Art of Making Up One's Mind observes this to be a common practice. Beginning with the story of a young woman who cannot decide what color of garment to buy, this essay takes notice of the...
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The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...
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From detective stories and penny dreadfuls to skeletons, slang, and patriotism, G. K. Chesterton offers fresh perspectives on a remarkable range of subjects. The master essayist addresses each topic-planets, humility, nonsense, ugly things-with his characteristic combination of wit, paradox, and good humor. Chesterton's "defenses" of seemingly innocuous matters reveal many of the hidden assumptions and dogmas of his time. The first collection of the...
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Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in the mid-nineteenth century, these philosophical essays were written by one of America's most celebrated thinkers. Poet and essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes drew upon his youthful experiences at a Boston boarding house to add color and humor to his reflections. As the autocrat, or ruler, of the communal table, Holmes converses with his fellow boarders, including the Landlady, the Professor, the Divinity...
7) And even now
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I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference to the moments at which they were severally composed. It was clear that these must have their dates affixed to them. And for sake of uniformity I have dated all the others, and, doing so, have thought I need not exclude all such topical remarks...
8) Remarks
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“Remarks” by Bill Nye is a collection of satirical essays and speeches that were originally delivered during his lecture tours. The book contains humorous and often absurd takes on various topics such as politics, religion, and society. Nye's wit and humor are on full display throughout the book, and his unique perspective and style of humor have made him a beloved figure in American comedy. The book is a fun and entertaining read for anyone who...
9) The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
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Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House.
This e-book includes an exclusive excerpt from The Bitch is Back: Older, Wiser, and Getting Happier, a second collection of essays from nine of the contributors featured in The Bitch in the House and from sixteen captivating new voices.
Women today have more choices than at any time in history, yet
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Excerpt: "I do not know whether this will awaken a sympathetic lassitude in, say, fifty per cent. of its readers, or whether my experience is unique and my testimony simply curious. At any rate, it is as true as I can make it. Whether this is a mere mood, and a certain flagrant exhilaration my true attitude towards things, or this is my true attitude and the exuberant phase a lapse from it, I cannot say. Probably it does not matter. The thing is that...
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Who is "The Lounge Lizard"? And, who is "A Courtier"?
"The Lounge Lizard" is a former Sydney investigative journalist, and "A Courtier" is a well-known Australian artist.
It is not through modesty that the author and illustrator are hiding, behind their chosen pseudonyms. Both are Members of a Sydney Club that traditionally prefers to stay out of the public spotlight. As loyal club-members, they have, decided to abide by that tradition.
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Half Dead Roadkill is an endless exploration into the unusual we may all see, but have never observed like author, Paul Donohue. Readers are thrown into a story about guns and those that love them a little too much and weave through a humorous, heart-pounding chance through the streets of San Francisco. They are also taken into relationships that range from under cooked eggs to a couple holding onto who they used to be to a jog that turns into an...
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When Dianne Morrow and her husband, Andy, first saw the ramshackle old farmhouse, they fell in love. What they didn't see was the years of work it would take to make the old house a home. Morrow describes, through essays, journal entries and poetry, the triumphs and the challenges of rebuilding a cozy farmhouse - and nurturing a growing brood of kids and animals. Often humourous, sometimes sad, this is the story of building a home, and a life under...
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En este libro el lector encontrará una fantástica historia que fue hecha pedazos, siendo después reconstruida delicadamente, durante años, por la misma mano que la destruyó.
Algunos párrafos que componen el relato fueron hallados garabateados sobre papel higiénico, escritos durante la estancia del autor en un elegante y acogedor psiquiátrico sin jardín, pero con vistas al mar.
15) Out-of-the-Box Essays: A Young-at-Heart Writer Explores the Complexities of Everyday Life with Her O
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Why do writers write these short essays?
Are my thoughts, ideas or random bits of observation any better than yours?
Will my words change the world somehow? Will they change or somehow inspire you in some way?
Probably not, but I do believe writers write these "pearls of wisdom" and "gems of observation" because we've been around the block a few times and want to share what we have learned-so you, the reader will have a few laughs, a few "that's...
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A collection of Beerbohm's essays from the 1890s written while he was still a student at Oxford. The book launched Beerbohm's career as an essayist. Replete with mock-scholarly footnotes and biographical information, The Works epitomizes Beerbohm's penchant for deflating pretentiousness with satiric imitation.
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In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.
The best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer hilariously destroys the cultural myths and impossible...
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A funny and incisive collection of essays on oddities of life in the 1980s, from one of America's most cherished humorists First published in 1985, Not Exactly What I Had In Mind is Roy Blount Jr.'s smart and witty examination of the era's most glaring absurdities-from the ever-growing deficit under then-president Reagan to the Game Theory–like levels of strategy required to pack for a vacation. In "Testimonial, Head-on," Blount offers a loving...
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Bill Nye's “Cordwood” is a humorous essay collection written by Bill Nye, an American journalist and humorist, originally published in 1887. The book includes a series of comical essays on various topics, such as the struggles of life in rural America, the absurdities of the legal system, and the follies of political leaders. Throughout the book, Nye uses his sharp wit and clever wordplay to poke fun at the quirks and idiosyncrasies of American...
20) Lost Worlds
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They go. They vanish. People. Civilizations. Languages. Philosophies. Works of art disappear, species are extinguished, books are lost. Dunwich is drowned, Pompeii buried, Athena's statue gone from the Parthenon, Suetonius's Lives of the Great Whores gone the way of the Roman Empire. Whole libraries of knowledge, galleries of secrets. Gone. Little things, too. Train compartments. Snuff, galoshes, smog. Your mother's perfume.
Michael Bywater argues...
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