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America's great classic master of wit and humor gives us a plethora of hilarity in this collection. Polyp with a Past -- The Young Idea's Shooting Gallery -- Open Bookcases -- How to Sell Goods -- When Not in Rome Why Do As the Romans Did? -- African Sculpture -- "In...
''My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew'' is a 1936 collection of 105 short humorous essays by Robert Benchley. The book was a best-seller upon release. The collection is considered one of Benchley's most brilliant. A reviewer at America wrote, that My Ten...
''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; or, David Copperfield'' is a collection of humorous essays by American's great humorist Robert Benchley. The book features essays that often humorously portray an average American struggling with everyday complexities. Benchley had a...
In ''Pluck and Luck'' there are two main types of Benchley writing here, genre parody and slice-of-life humor. The former are the most unhinged bits of the book, in which popular literary styles of the day and various types of stuffed-shirt academic writing are folded,...
''The Apes of God'' (1930) is a striking and satirical novel by British artist and writer Wyndham Lewis, a satire of London's contemporary literary and artistic scene. The Sitwells, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group are among the...
The news spread like wildfire: Hugh Rawson was back in Klickitat! Three reasons brought him: He had to find the coward who had ambushed him. He had to uncover the gang that had made the trails unsafe for the precious gold shipments. And he had to see for himself if his...
Mediator Logan Stuart is respected by Oregon's miners, but their trust in him is tested when one of Logan's friends is framed for robbery and he sets out to catch the real crook.
A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. Detective writer John Hillyard is entertaining a small house party at Minton Deeps Farm when a shocking accident takes place. Shortly after enacting a murder drama for their own amusement, the guests are returning to the house when Eric Scott...
Two rival families engage in a deadly feud that threatens to tear an entire community apart. Set against the backdrop of the American West in the early 20th century, the book explores themes of loyalty, revenge, and the destructive power of long-standing grudges.
Clint set his sights dead on the ambusher, who was waiting for his prey. He thought of giving the men warning, but decided against it. An ambusher was worse than a vicious jackal. He deserved no mercy. The ambusher was unaware that he, too, was a target. Clint’s breath...
Part suspense thriller, part mystery novel, partly set at Cambridge University, where White himself had recently studied, but also at Pemberley, in Derbyshire. If you are an admirer of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, you might surmise that the name of Darcy comes...
Murder at the Motor Show first published in 1935 (published in the U.K. as Mystery at Olympia). A dense crowd surrounded the new Comet car that was fully expected to be the sensation of the great Motor Show at Olympia. Suddenly one of the eager spectators, an elderly...
The story is told through the eyes of Marcus, a Roman citizen who arrives in Jerusalem on the day Jesus is crucified. A magnificent novel of the forty days after Christ rose from the dead. Waltari’s ''The Secret of the Kingdom'' describes the Biblical events taking...
Art as Experience by John Dewey (1859-1952), public domain. Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, ''Art as Experience'' has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work...
First published in 1925, this second edition 1929, public domain. In this brilliant and inspiring book, Prof. Dewey attempts to apply in philosophy the thought which is effective in dealing with any genuine question, from the elaborate problems of science to the...
Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War, Hervey Allen's Toward the Flame vividly chronicles the experiences of the Twenty-eighth Division in the summer of 1918. Made up primarily of Pennsylvania National Guardsmen, the...
During a party, the host, an internationally famous entrepreneur, is kidnapped and his wife murdered.
A new musical Old Seville produced by Kurt Goldmayer is having a try-out at a South Coast theatre before transferring to London's West End. One night, however, the leading lady Adrienne Daw disappears from her dressing room and is later found murdered.
''The Bad Seed'' by William March (1893-1954), public domain. What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William March's classic thriller. After its initial publication in 1954, the book went...
The central detective is Inspector Blampignon of the Sûreté who had previously appeared in Death on the Riviera. It is divided into two distinct parts with the first section narrated in first person by Nigel Derry, one of the suspects, and the second part follows the...
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