Юмористическая проза
5453 кн.
Рассказ про то, как незадачливый ученик Мишка Чашкин пытался сдать экзамен по географии.
| Автор | Дмитрий Арефьев |
| Жанр | Юмористическая проза |
| Год | 2023 |
Новые и хорошо незабытые старые истории из личной жизни знаменитого Сантехника. Того самого, без которого мир рухнет, трубы лопнут, костёр погаснет… Оптимист… Считает, что наполовину пустую миску всегда можно наполнить из крана. Его ироничное, философское отношение к житейским проблемам хорошо понятно и оптимистам и скептикам. Он – идеальный мужчина! Только жаль, что, как считают завистливые поклонницы, женат на некрасивой подруге… 1. Очень тонкий комплимент с собакой в основании 2....
| Автор | Слава Сэ |
„Angelų klubas“ – vieno garsiausių šiuolaikinių brazilų rašytojų Luiso Fernando Verissimo satyrinė istorija apie keistus pasirinkimus, mirtį ir nuostabias gastronomines patirtis. Nevengdamas tamsaus humoro autorius pasakoja apie dešimt pasiturinčių vyrų, džiaugsmingai puoselėjančių apsirijimo nuodėmę. Visi jie priklauso gurmanų klubui ir kartą per mėnesį susitinka pasimėgauti itin prašmatniomis vakarienėmis. Po dvidešimties klubo gyvavimo metų lyderis miršta nuo AIDS, o kitus narius sieję ryšiai...
| Автор | Luis Fernando Verissimo |
Rzuć wszystko i załóż stajnię Winston Churchill twierdził, że żadnej godziny życia nie można uznać za zmarnowaną, jeśli spędziło się ją w siodle. Ta maksyma przez wiele lat była dla Ewy drogowskazem – zawsze i wszędzie towarzyszyły jej konie. Po powrocie z Londynu kobieta w końcu postanawia spełnić swoje największe marzenie i otworzyć własną stajnię. Ale nagle los przestaje być jej przychylny. Małżeństwo Ewy się rozpada, sytuacja finansowa z dnia na dzień się pogarsza, a prowadzenie pensjonatu...
| Автор | Elżbieta Pragłowska |
Denise, a middle-aged idealist, cashes her last $400 paycheck and drives south with her two Chihuahuas in search of a summer job that will renew her weary spirit. As she drives through a national park in Northern California, Denise stumbles upon a job as a fast-fry cook at Hacienda RV Park and seizes the promising opportunity. Unfortunately, her job behind the grill turns out to be more complicated than flipping burgers and transforms her working vacation into a trip comparable to the psych...
| Автор | Diane Stegman |
Brian Lembeck – ‘Pulpy’ – takes life slow and steady. He likes his office job, and he likes his gentle, figurine-collecting boss, Al. He even likes the bitter receptionist, though he’s the only one who does. He likes his wife, Midge, too, and their ice-dancing lessons. Midge works as a candle-party hostess – she quit her office job when Al’s dog ate her pet pigeon and Al promised Pulpy a promotion. But when Al retires and the...
| Автор | Jessica Westhead |
Рисунки Г. Валька.
| Автор | Валерий Медведев |
| Жанр | Советская классическая проза, Сказки народов мира, Приключения для детей и подростков, Юмористическая проза |
| Год | 1965 |
Продолжение истории о каникулах. Как весело и с огоньком провести время в деревне.
| Автор | Ольга Лю |
| Жанр | Приключения, Юмористическая проза |
| Год | 2023 |
Эта книга — сборник юмористических рассказов о бойкой пенсионерке Марьиванне, которая переехала из деревни в город. С ней постоянно случаются забавные приключения.
| Автор | Мария Мган |
| Жанр | Юмор, Юмористическая проза |
| Год | 2023 |
Summer Wright organises her life down to the minute. And when boyfriend Adrian proposes marriage – on schedule – she will reach the peak of The Cone of Certainty. At least, that’s the plan – until adventure-show queen Cougar Gale intervenes. Suddenly Summer is impersonating Cougar in Antarctica: learning climate science on the fly, building an igloo, improvising scripts based on Dynasty, and above all trying not to be revealed as an impostor. But Summer finds it particularly hard to fool climate...
| Автор | Lisa Walker |
"An ode to the imagination."—[i]NRC HandelsbladA joy to read, [i]La Superba, winner of the most prestigious Dutch literary prize, is a Rabelaisian, stylistic tour-de-force. Migration, legal and illegal, is at the center of this novel about a writer who becomes trapped in his walk on the wild side in mysterious and exotic Genoa, the labyrinthine port city nicknamed «La Superba.»[b]Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (b. 1968), poet, dramatist, novelist, renowned in the Netherlands as a master...
| Автор | Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer |
"A striking metaphor for our times."—[i]Le FigaroThis long-awaited English-language debut from Morocco's most prominent contemporary writer won the Prix Gouncourt de Nouvelles, France's most prestigious literary award, for best story collection. Laroui uses surrealism, laugh-out-loud humor, and profound compassion across a variety of literary styles to highlight the absurdity of the human condition, exploring the realities of life in a world where everything is...
| Автор | Fouad Laroui |
Wildly off-beat, whimsical, humorous, and philosophical, here is an adventure story to engross the mind, warm the heart, and quicken the imagination. world-renowned concert violinist Zoltan Zany has been sitting in his living room armchair for an entire year, contemplating—with the help of his unconventional friends and austrian housekeeper—the future direction of his life. Meanwhile, his etymologist son, attila, along with an israeli linguist and archaeologist named isaac mashugi, is...
| Автор | Jim Gold |
Жила-была красивая и добрая принцесса…Скучно? Надоело? Жила в сказочном королевстве некрасивая принцесса и была она совсем не добрая. Злая она была.
| Автор | Ирина Кашеварова |
| Жанр | Сказки народов мира, Проза для детей, Юмористическая проза |
| Год | 2023 |
James Tate—recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award—is one of the most popular and prestigious American poets of his generation. This is his first and only collection of fiction. First time this book is available in softcover (hardcover was published by Verse Press in 2002 and did not have the benefit of national distribution—many Tate fans don’t even know the previous edition exists.) Received starred reviews in Kirkus and Publishers Weekly...
| Автор | James Tate |
The acclaimed author of The Peep Diaries and Hello, I'm Special returns to fiction, and delivers a mind-altering collection of short stories that confront the hypocrisies, humiliations and hilarities of modern life. The foibles of the 21st-century ego are on full view in this romp through social conventions—imaginative, offbeat stories that confront society's intractable dilemmas and deftly capture the zeitgeist of our fractured times. *An undergraduate gets in way over...
| Автор | Hal Niedzviecki |
The life of a naive, born-again teen can sometimes seem God-awful, as Gideon discovers at Overcomer Bible Institute. Having given himself over to religion, Gideon quickly finds his newfound faith challenged by sexually aggressive women, a disturbed student armed with a power drill, and Siamese-twin evangelists. A satiric look at the religious and secular worlds, Anxious Gravity succeeds at the daunting task of being both thoughtful and wildly entertaining. "Jeff Wells is the most...
| Автор | Jeff Wells |
Nina Dolgoy leads her neighbours on a campaign to renovate the community pool, but the only way she can think to raise money is to rob a bank. Unfortunately, she isn’t very good at it. In a part of town so beaten down that even prostitutes and drug dealers have written if off, Nina Dolgoy imagines that if the local pool wasn’t boarded up, her little daughters could use it to burn off their wayward energy and avoid falling into utter degradation. So the bitterly self-proclaimed «welfare queen»...
| Автор | Joey Slinger |
В этой книге о том, что вы не замечаете, на что не обращаете внимания в обычной жизни. Острый взгляд и необычный анализ.
| Автор | Алексей Зимнегорский |
| Жанр | Юмор, Путешествия и география, Юмористическая проза |
| Год | 2023 |
Что может произойти в дороге с молодыми весёлыми девчатами, которые по своей наивности рассказали попутчикам кое-что лишнее о себе?
| Автор | Ольга Лю |
| Жанр | Приключения, Юмористическая проза |
| Год | 2023 |
A hilarious literary novel about the world of alternative, folk, and indie rock, in a self-unravelling, edgy, contemporary style Author's previous book, Festival Man , won excellent reviews in Quill & Quire , Maclean’s , the New York Journal of Books , the Vancouver Sun , and the National Post Author is a “klezmer-punk” musician who has performed in seventeen countries with a devoted international cult following Author’s new album Canadiana Grotesqueiqua will be included as a...
| Автор | Geoff Berner |
Elevating Overman is a funny and painful story of redemption that explores the complex ramifications of what it means to get a second chance. The novel follows the journey of Ira Overman, veteran of multiple botched careers and a singularly botched marriage, as he makes one last attempt to rise above the guilt, weakness, and self-hatred that have been hard-wired into his soul since birth. Through an unlikely side effect from a seemingly routine surgery, Overman suddenly finds himself trying to...
| Автор | Bruce Ferber |
In the highly personal tradition of Jenny Offill and Elena Ferrante, Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride is loosely based on Sweany's tragicomedic teenage life growing up in Indiana and his later years working in the New York publishing industry. Hunter S. Thompson biographer William McKeen called it, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Leave It to Beaver.” And bestselling author Frank Bill adds, “In the vein of David Sedaris or Chuck Palahniuk, Brian Sweany has...
| Автор | Brian Sweany |
Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat on linoleum, when each member of the gang decides to ladle out his own personal nuke soup, holy terror Akhmed is left steaming. Will his plan to destroy America float like a fly or sink like a lead dumpling?Star-crossed lovers, conniving academics, and...
| Автор | Gary Buslik |