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The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist but not recognized for his hard work. Younger clerks mock him for his dedication. His threadbare overcoat is mocked as well. He saves up to buy a new one and wears it for one glorious evening, only to have it stolen that night. He dies soon after from his great loss. Thereafter, his ghost is reported to haunt that part of St. Petersburg where the coat was stolen.

Why Would You Do This? is a 12-episode series from Audible Suno, hosted by comedian Sahil Shah. This series explores the most bizarre and silly news stories from India and around the world. Join Sahil Shah and some of India's top comedians as they dissect some of the stupidest things humans have done by asking, "Why Would You Do This?"

Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle...

Have you ever slathered mustard on a hotdog and thought, "Wow, I sure hope the company that made this condiment isn't a corrupt tech startup run by a CEO who is a tyrannical chauvinist!" Well, you're about to.

A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".

शरद जोशी की गणना हिन्दी के अग्रणी हास्य-व्यंगकारों से की जाती है । उनकी रचनाएं जहाँ एक और हंसाती और मन को गुदगुदाती हैं, वहां दूसरी और जबरदस्त चोट भी करती है । समाज, शासन और राजनीति उनकी रचनाओं के विशेष विषय रहे है । 'पिछले दिनों शरद जोशी के ऐसे व्यंग्य लेखों का संग्रह है जो एक ओर सामाजिक स्थितियों को नई दृष्टि देते हुए सही दिशा की ओर इंगित करते हैं तो दूसरी ओर अपनी तीक्ष्णता और पैनेपन से भी पाठक को प्रभावित करते हैं । इन रचनाओं से हिन्दी साहित्य का स्तर ऊंचा हुआ है ।

In an alternate America, JFK survived—and didn’t just win the Space Race. He never stopped. Now it’s 1972, and JFK’s ever-expanding space empire is ripping holes in space-time itself—erasing people, places, and entire histories from existence. The only ones who might be able to stop him? Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne), a former moon nurse lying low in Hoboken, New Jersey… and Richard Nixon, tangled in a conspiracy so bizarre it stretches from the Moon to a Shakey’s Pizza to a parallel-universe Watergate.

The Unexperts is a 10-episode series from Audible Suno, created and hosted by Abish Mathew. The Unexperts are experts at giving you information you don't need- unsolicited advice, ridiculous opinions and really, really bad reviews. Every episode features a panel of Unexperts who will take down and breakdown everything from their old school teachers, to artificial intelligence, ghosts, the apocalypse, family and more.

The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. *Contains an exclusive bonus chapter!* Featured as 'best books about female rage' in Stylist ‘So engaging and easy to get lost in. I couldn’t put it down’ ★★★★★ ‘All the twists, all the...

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed - no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman. People certainly recognise him, albeit as a flawless impersonator who refuses to break character. The unthinkable, the inevitable happens, and the ranting Hitler goes viral, becomes a YouTube star, gets his own T.V. show, and people begin to listen.

Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

परसाई हँसाने की हड़बड़ी में नहीं होते। वे पढ़नेवाले को देवता नहीं मानते, न ग्राहक, सिर्फ़ एक नागरिक मानते हैं, वह भी उस देश का जिसका स्वतंत्रता दिवस बारिश के मौसम में पड़ता है और गणतंत्र दिवस कड़ाके की ठंड में। परसाई की निगाह से यह बात नहीं बच सकी तो सिर्फ़ इसलिए कि ये दोनों पर्व उनके लिए सिर्फ़ उत्सव नहीं, सोचने-विचारने के भी दिन हैं। वे नहीं चाहते कि इन दिनों को सिर्फ़ थोथी राष्ट्र-श्लाघा में व्यर्थ कर दिया जाए, जैसा कि आम तौर पर होता है।

Bryson Wilde, investigator for hire, lives in an edgy world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. In R. J. Jagger’s riveting noir thriller, A Way with Murder, Wilde finds himself entangled in two deadly assignments, one for a young, raven-haired attorney on the run after visiting an archeological site in Mexico, and the other for a pretty, little doll-face, who is too mysterious to trust and too hypnotic to resist.

Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.

Narrated by award winning actor Bill Nighy. When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 ‘A novel to marvel at’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH ‘Astonishing’ MICHAEL MAGEE ‘Like Karl Ove Knausgaard at the end of the world’ SUNDAY TIMES The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a darkly beautiful novel following a reclusive graduate in a...

When Lady Miss returns to her great-aunt's church in New Orleans to plan the funeral of the beloved Mother Miss Pearline, she discovers that the humble congregation of her youth has been transformed into a megachurch conglomerate run by holograms, subscriptions, and an AI named Earncybot. At the center of it all is the scheming Illuminate Slanders, a woman with five dead husbands, a suspicious will, and a dangerous plan to upload every church member's consciousness into her AI network.

"Are you sure you can take the pain" she asked? "I think so, I gulped." "Here we go then" she said, and handed me the receipt! This is the hilarious spoof of Fifty Shades of Grey. A story of one man's journey into a world of pleasure and pain and the occasional spot of fungal rot! Read by Alex Lowe ( Clare In the Community, and Barry from Watford), and sexy Amelia Clay. Fifty Sheds of Grey--Hotter, steamier---and damper!

Right Ho, Jeeves sees Bertie Wooster blithely attempting to assume the role of Jeeves himself as a matters-of-the-heart adviser. Very unwise: from Gussie Fink-Nottle's romance with Madeline Bassett, to Tuppy Glossop and his stop/go engagement to Angela Travers, the young master succeeds only in...

Winner of an Obie and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman, Yellow Face is as timely as ever, wrestling with issues of cultural appropriation, complicity, and artistic freedom. It’s brought to life in this audio-only revival by a stunning all-star cast (many playing themselves) led by Daniel Dae Kim.