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Il Marchese Del Grillo, altri dicono Duca Del Grillo, fu un gentiluomo romano, nato fra il 1730 e il 1740 e morto verso il 1800, cioè più di ottant’anni fa. Quantunque non mi sia riuscito di apprendere, per quante ricerche abbia fatto, il nome con cui egli fu battezzato, nè la data precisa della sua nascita, ho potuto verificare, dalle affermazioni recise dei suoi discendenti, che egli è un personaggio storico, vero, realmente esistito e che molte delle bizzarre avventure...

Dein Chef nervt, die Waschmaschine spinnt und das Chaos nimmt kein Ende? Zeit für deine Dosis Humor! Worum geht's? Wenn das Leben liefert ist Alltagssatire in Bestform: bissig, ehrlich, treffsicher. Tim schreibt, was alle denken – nur schneller, witziger und mit einem Timing, bei dem selbst Doc Brown 'Great Scott!' murmelt. Warum du es lieben wirst: Wiedererkennung pur - Du liest, nickst, lachst – und denkst: "Ja, genau so!" Knackige Storys - Satirische Kurzgeschichten, perfekt für zwischendurch. Humor mit Haltung - Intelligenter Wortwitz statt platter Gags.

After establishing the Society of Assured Prosperity and successfully disguising his insurance business as a charity, Willem heads to the capital of the kingdom to expand into a new market....

In Leonce und Lena flieht der gelangweilte Prinz Leonce seiner arrangierten Hochzeit und landet ausgerechnet in Italien – nur um dort auf die ebenfalls entwischte Lena zu treffen und sich unversehens zu verlieben. Büchners einziges Lustspiel zählt zu den schönsten und scharfsinnigsten deutschen Komödien – mit Witz, Ironie und Gesellschaftssatire. Sven Görtz verleiht der ungekürzten Lesung eine lebendige, humorvolle Interpretation, die den spritzigen Dialogen gerecht wird.

Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anything.

Gli anni passano, ma i problemi restano – soprattutto quelli finanziari – e la contessa Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo della Cisterna, perseguitata dall'Agenzia delle Entrate, vive nell'incubo di un futuro in cui per colazione non potrà più permettersi le sue adorate frolle di pasticceria e dovrà ripiegare sui biscotti industriali. È la sua amata Anna, la ragazza che sarebbe diventata sua nuora se suo figlio Emanuele non si fosse fatto lasciare, a proporle un'immediata fonte di introiti: partecipare, in veste di Vip pagata, a una crociera.

Una breve parodia omaggio a Marco Malvaldi e al mondo delle sue narrazioni.

Imogen is a classic left-wing student. War is bad, minorities are good, and I don’t care if I’m ruining Christmas, Mum, it’s important! But when she accidentally falls foul of campus orthodoxy, she finds herself alone, dejected, and friendless. Until a firebrand right-wing news station...

This is the tale of the happy but ill-fated Candide and his progressive disillusionment with the idea that we live in the best of all possible worlds. His tutor, Dr. Pangloss, embodies this philosophy of good cheer, even in the face of ever more absurd misfortunes. Luckily, Candide's other companions provide an over-supply of good sense.

Meet Jim Greene. An ordinary detective constable trying "not" to solve a murder. The remote and isolated Cornish island of Gallymay was meant to be the perfect place for a break. But things don’t quite go to plan when Jim stumbles across a body on his first day. Which is the last thing he needs. But it’s fine. He’ll call Devon and Cornwall Police. They’ll sort it out. Except the storm, and the island, have other ideas.

Un rocambolesco viaggio in una Cinquecento azzurro pastello tra Torino e... Dublino. Alla guida un'agorafobica pronta a giocarsi il tutto e per tutto contro le sue paure (e le sue manie ossessivo-compulsive, e i suoi titanici attacchi di panico), nel tentativo di salvare se stessa o un aspirante suicida che ha conosciuto su un blog. Un tragi-comico flusso di coscienza dal ritmo incalzante, narrato con autoironia e sarcasmo, in cui profonde meditazioni e grottesche vicende si fondono con momenti di autoanalisi, allucinazioni e "lucida" follia.

Faith has a lot on her plate as she attempts to solve a Depression Era murder while trying to clear her husband’s name after he is accused of a heartless theft. Poignant, suspenseful, puzzling, and all-around marvelous, The Body in the Gazebo is cozy culinary mystery at its very best—complete with a resolution that would make Dame Agatha Christie proud.

From the host of Comedy Central's newest program, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other nightly topics--updated with new material for this edition. Now boasting three new chapters and an...

تصنَّف رواية الوجه الأصفر بأنها إحدى روايات الرعب التي تدور حول الشعور بالوحدة في مجال الأدب شديد التنافسية؛

When Come Knocking came to Los Angeles, the interactive theater production that took over six floors of an abandoned building was met with raves, lines for tickets, and reviews calling it the “must-see experience of a generation.” But after dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured on a bloody night of chaos during the show’s run, the nation was captured by one inescapable question: How could this happen?

Una breve ed esilarante parodia del libro "Cuore" di Edmondo De Amicis.

Lem Putt could have chosen to continue building houses, barns and chicken coops and made a decent living. But instead he turned his talents to privy building, and he'll tell you why. It's not just carpentry skills that create an ideal outhouse—you need to know a lot about human nature. Lem is happy to relate here how he chose to specialize.

Rose Gold can’t catch a break. Her latest “golden opportunity” has given way to a madcap adventure through the soft underbelly of Bonneville City. She finds herself cast in the role of renegade mentor and hero to a trio of idealistic young rebels. Together, they perpetrate an act of subversion targeting “future-mover” and celebrity CEO Moses Honeydew, which puts them in the crosshairs of his Substrate Inc.

Life as an NFL player has always been fast-paced, but nothing prepared me for becoming the guardian of my godson, Duncan. With his grandmother contesting custody, I need to prove that I'm a steadfast influence who's not going anywhere, and there's one sure-fire way to show that: get engaged.

A grotesque and hilarious satire about the American dream, suburban living, and the corrupting influence of power, set in a world that could only have sprung from the unhinged and brilliant mind of John Waters. Listen as Waters himself acts out each role! On the verge of a suburban mental health...