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Excerpt: "The object of this essay is to examine vulgarism and slang in the works of Jerome K. Jerome (b. 1859). Jerome gives us very good specimens of the ordinary language of the Victorian era. His style is not surprisingly original, but he shows a remarkable talent in rendering with perfect accuracy the characteristic talk of different classes of society. The persons he introduces to us need only utter a few words, before we are able to form a...
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Get the Summary of Fredrik Backman's My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You Shes Sorry in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Seven-year-old Elsa feels like an outsider but shares a special bond with her eccentric 77-year-old Granny, who creates a fantasy world called the Land-of-Almost-Awake to help Elsa cope with life's challenges. Granny's apartment building is filled with unique tenants, each with their own quirks...
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I didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016, but I was willing to offer the benefit of the doubt, hoping that once sworn in he'd magically start acting with a dignity befitting the office. That anticipation, more like delusion, had totally dissipated by 2019 when I started writing Trump-related satires as a form of personal therapy, following an age-old tradition that pompous people in power invite ridicule. Here was a man all about himself -- a fragile,...
4) Haze
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Anyone painful memory with traces kept back in particular placesIt will be unique, but they have vanished in a haze of antiques!
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Get the Summary of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Korede, a meticulous nurse, is entangled in her sister Ayoola's lethal habits. Ayoola, the younger and more carefree sister, has a history of her boyfriends dying under suspicious circumstances, which she claims are accidents or self-defense. Korede, bound by loyalty and fear, aids Ayoola in covering up these...
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Timeshare Titans: A Satire is a fictional account of a man named Henderson Cloud who dies in 2019 after spending many decades in the timeshare business. He leaves all of his writings and tape recordings about his life in the industry to his daughter Maria, who endeavors to make some sense of them in exchange for receiving an inheritance of $10,000. An odd narrative ensues that describes the funny and not-so-funny experiences of Cloud and many other...
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A defiant woman and her colorful neighbors reclaim their homes in Chernobyl.
There may be government warnings about radiation levels in her hometown of Tschernowo-also known as Chernobyl-but Baba Dunja has returned. And she's brought a motley bunch of her former neighbors with her. With the town largely to themselves, and lots of strangely misshapen fruit, they have everything they need to start anew.
The terminally ill Petrov passes the time reading...
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The story is set in the city of Melbourne in the latter half of the 19th century, when it was growing rapidly, due to the gold flowing from Ballarat and Bendigo in mid-Victoria. It concerns Dr James Beaney, a very colourful and controversial surgeon, who amassed a fortune from his practice, and displayed it in the jewellery he wore, the mansion he had built (which still exists today) and in his social life. He was, however, a generous benefactor to...
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Barry has not kept up with his routine bodily maintenance. Though he's had regular blood replacements and lymph balancing, his eye fluid is long overdue for changing, and now his eye floaters are a thick cloud that's becoming more and more self-aware by the day.
When Barry is downsized from his job as Pen and Paperclip Auditor, his eye floaters' political rallies turn out to be what save him from starvation and homelessness.
But they're...
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The only thing worse thanwaking up with the hangover from hellis waking up with a hangover in hellWhen literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he' s been consigned to rehab (yet again) by his dwindling band of friends and growing collection of ex-wives.But he soon realises there' s something a bit different about this place after he gets punched in the face by Ernest Hemingway.Is Foster...
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Get the Summary of Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In 1995, Lillian, a 28-year-old living in her mother's attic and working two cashier jobs, receives a letter from her wealthy friend Madison Roberts, offering her a job. Lillian accepts and travels to Madison's estate in Tennessee. Madison, now married to a senator, needs Lillian to care for her stepchildren, Bessie and Roland,...
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This is a dictionary of fatuous, desipient daffynitions. An 'A' to Zed of paronomasia. Another of the many wordbooks that tell stories or drive the imagination through word play; another wordbook in likeness to those authored of an earlier dictionary full of quips, wisecracks, and some oddities of English words. Like those, and the earlier editions, this little dictionary too offers an array of mischievous quips in definitions to the entries to many...
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An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts
In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to found a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old.
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Brownie Terwilliger looks at his opportunity to run for mayor of Philadelphia as a chance to right the wrongs of a city. He hopes to oust Milton Streezo, the incumbent, but Streezo does not take kindly to this challenge and concocts a plan to destroy Brownie, even hiring Lunky Ledbetter, famed perpetrator of dirty political tricks. Can Brownie withstand the onslaught? Will he have the opportunity to do some good in the world? Don't bet on it.
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"A sublime ferocious farce." -The New Yorker.
"Incomparable ... a wonderful slapstick satire on hypocrisy." -New Statesman.
"One of the great comic novels of the twentieth century." -Anthony Burgess.
Meet our memoirist, Augustus Carp, a self-proclaimed "good man" who relishes every opportunity to condemn the weaknesses of others while excusing his own failings. In this spoof autobiography, the pompous narrator enthusiastically recounts his mundane...
17) He Lost, He Lost
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HE LOST, HE LOST! features four major reasons that Trump lost - not just the election but popular support, based on a series of cartoons with a spirit of levity. The commentary is written in this same spirit, while providing some background to explain the comparisons made in the cartoons. The four reasons Trump lost are these: - Trump is Bats in that he is like a bat flying in the dark so he can't see what's real very well, and he's running...
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From one of Britain's leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme. Five researchers are sent into the midst of this chaos to compile a new guidebook about the peculiar, unexplored land and its all-powerful leader, President Nil. Adam, Benjamin, Jaquiline, Edgar, and Richard attempt to gather...
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Katie Arnoldi's critically acclaimed debut novel Chemical Pink launched her onto the bestseller lists and so established itself into the public's consciousness that its title was the answer to a Double Jeopardy question. Her sophomore effort, The Wentworths, was searing portrait of a wealthy Westside, Los Angeles, family. This too was a fixture on bestseller lists and earned her a wider audience.
With Point Dume, Arnoldi has produced her most remarkable...
20) Sex
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Wedged between a rock and hard times, Hank finds himself in Las Vegas-the City of Sins. There he finds himself in the midst of people who would do anything to get ahead and those who'd make him seek pleasure unlike before. In the struggle to survive and write, Hank experiences more than he thought the Las Vegas could ever give.
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