Showing results for "The Idiot" in Literature & Fiction

Kieran's love life didn't get off to a good start. He threw up after his first kiss; he was beaten up by the first girl to have a crush on him; and after a mix-up with his first love letter, he could only sit back and watch as the entire school mistook him for a brutal murderer. By the time the hormones kicked in, Kieran had all but given up on love, but the worst was yet to come.

"The Idiot" is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers Pedagog's home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you're beneath contempt you can say what you please. This is the first of John Kendrick Bangs' "Idiot" books and was published by Harper and Brothers in 1895.

Obsessed by what they are certain is the impending apocalypse, a mismatched trio set off on a globetrotting road-trip in the latest feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. In the fading days of...

These 12 unique stories are designed to keep you laughing for hours on end!

Sixteen of the funniest stories in the world!

Twelve of the funniest stories in the world! Believe me, you won't stop grinning!

Manchmal scheint es, als ob die Welt voller Idioten wäre. Man kann all die Idioten nicht ignorieren. Sie beherrschen die Welt bis in jede hinterste Ecke. Gerade die kleinen Ärgernisse des Alltags gehen einem auf den Keks, die, mit denen jeder einmal zu tun hat. Das Einzige, was einem übrig bleibt, ist, all den Idioten gedanklich eine lange Nase zu drehen. Was ich hiermit tue.

Ein fabelhaftes Fabelbuch aus Italien, voller Sprichwörter und Lebensweisheiten. Und voller Idioten, die der Wirklichkeit mit Feuer und Mathematik zu begegnen suchen, die die Geschwindigkeit ablehnen oder sich in die Lüfte erheben wollen, die einen zu kleinen Kopf oder ein zu großes Herz haben, sich für Maler, Schriftsteller oder Nutten halten, für verdoppelt, verteufelt oder verzwergt. Kurz: Leute wie du und ich.

Christie Lovelace is sent to investigate an anonymous tip linking the death of a nameless woman to allegations of corruption in the small town of Danbury, Texas. In the course of Christie's roller-coaster investigation, she is blindsided by unexpected news from her boyfriend Kieran, financially accosted by a strange motel owner named Otto, and forced to endure the curiously strong smell of feces wafting throughout the sheriff's station.

The dummies initially resisted the rescue because they weren't done shopping.

[Contains explicit content] Colleagues remember a fallen brother as a doofus who didn’t know basic safety precautions.