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Absurdist Parodies of Literary Genre Tropes – 4 Classic Satire Stories

Enriched edition. The Nose, Nightmare Abbey, The Curse of the Catafalques, A Double Barrelled Detective Story

by Nikolai Gogol, Thomas Love Peacock, F. Anstey, Mark Twain, Eden Blair ...

Absurdist Parodies of Literary Genre Tropes – 4 Classic Satire Stories encapsulates a vivid tableau of satire and wit, expertly navigating the eccentricities of literary conventions. This anthology gathers an eclectic mix of absurdist narratives that not only entertain but question the established norms of storytelling. From delving into the surreal realms fashioned by the imaginations of some of ... Read more

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Absurdist Parodies of Literary Genre Tropes – 4 Classic Satire Stories encapsulates a vivid tableau of satire and wit, expertly navigating the eccentricities of literary conventions. This anthology gathers an eclectic mix of absurdist narratives that not only entertain but question the established norms of storytelling. From delving into the surreal realms fashioned by the imaginations of some of
... Read more
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Everybody's Fly

A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture

by Fab 5 Freddy, Mark Rozzo ...

Narrated by Fab 5 Freddy ...

Unabridged

17 hours 4 min

**Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more“Everybody’s Fly could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the outsized flair from a person who was at the center of it all.”—Rolling StoneAn electrifying memoir from the pioneering ... Read more

$26.00 USD

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**Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more“Everybody’s Fly could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the outsized flair from a person who was at the center of it all.”—Rolling StoneAn electrifying memoir from the pioneering
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Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales

The Wrong Twin, Perkins of Portland, Alex the Great, On With Torchy, Love Among the Lions, etc.

by Ellis Parker Butler, Honoré de Balzac, Mark Twain, John Kendrick Bangs, Thorne Smith, Robert Fitzgerald, Harry Leon Wilson, H. C. Witwer, F. Anstey, S. R. Crockett, Marietta Holley, Sewell Ford, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Anne Warner, Dornford Yates, Charles Heber Clark, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Finley Peter Dunne, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, F. Morton Howard, Richard Marsh, H. H. Sir Bashford, J. Storer Clouston, O. Henry, Charles Battell Loomis, E. F. Benson, Anita Loos, Wallace Irvin, Lawrence Daniel Fogg, Terry Southern, Henry Wallace Phillips, George V. Hobart, Stephen Leacock, Daisy Ashford, W. A. Darlington, Kendell Foster Crossen, Israel Zangwill, Ring Lardner, Charles Eustace Merriman, Wallace Irwin, Howard Roger Garis, W. Heath Robinson, Lucretia P. Hale, Richmal Crompton, Peter Newell ...

Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales is a vast and vibrant anthology that explores the rich tradition of humorous literature. Spanning a wide range of styles from satirical wit to slapstick humor, this collection features stories that highlight human folly and celebrate life's absurdities through laughter. This anthology skillfully brings together works from the golden age of humor ... Read more

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Laughter Therapy: 63 Classic Books of Humorous Tales is a vast and vibrant anthology that explores the rich tradition of humorous literature. Spanning a wide range of styles from satirical wit to slapstick humor, this collection features stories that highlight human folly and celebrate life's absurdities through laughter. This anthology skillfully brings together works from the golden age of humor
... Read more
Everybody's Fly

A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture

by Fab 5 Freddy ...

**Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more“Everybody’s Fly could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the outsized flair from a person who was at the center of it all.”—Rolling Stone“An exuberant recounting of how a culturally ... Read more

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**Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more“Everybody’s Fly could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the outsized flair from a person who was at the center of it all.”—Rolling Stone“An exuberant recounting of how a culturally
... Read more

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Negotiating identity conflicts in a fragmenting world order

Edited by Paul Willem Meerts, Mark Anstey ...

Series series Key Studies in Diplomacy
Rapid systemic change within and across nations is disrupting traditional processes of identity formation and the ways groups manage their differences. The result is fragmentation: multiple identity groups making maximalist claims on governments and on one another. Internationally, a new tripolar imperialism is emerging, globalisation is weakening under US protectionism, and the United Nations’ ... Read more

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Rapid systemic change within and across nations is disrupting traditional processes of identity formation and the ways groups manage their differences. The result is fragmentation: multiple identity groups making maximalist claims on governments and on one another. Internationally, a new tripolar imperialism is emerging, globalisation is weakening under US protectionism, and the United Nations’
... Read more
Arab Spring

Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat

by I. William Zartman, Abdelwahab ben Hafaiedh, Heba Ezzat, Aly el Raggal, Abdullah Hamidaddin, Hugh Roberts, Amy Hamblin, Roel Meijer, Maarten Danckaert, Alice Alunni0, Karim Mezran1, Samir Aita2, Johannes Theiss3, Sinisa Vukovic4, Mark Anstey5, Fen Hampson6, Bessma Momani7 ...

Series Book 9 - Studies in Security and International Affairs
Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsive authoritarian rule. These previously unpublished, country-specific case studies of the uprisings and their still unfolding political aftermaths identify patterns and courses of negotiation and ... Read more

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Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsive authoritarian rule. These previously unpublished, country-specific case studies of the uprisings and their still unfolding political aftermaths identify patterns and courses of negotiation and
... Read more
The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Volume 7

by Alastair Gunn, Miles Gerald Keon, James Hain Friswell, Hesba Stretton, George Augustus Sala, Anne Sarah Bushby, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mark Lemon, Charlotte Riddell, Frances Cashel Hoey, William Wilthew Fenn, Clara Venn, Florence Marryat, F. Anstey, Bithia Mary Croker, Mark Rutherford, J. E. P. Muddock, Hume Nisbet, Frank Richard Stockton, W. W. Jacobs, John Kendrick Bangs ...

Series Book 7 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the seventh in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 7 in the series spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas, and includes stories from a wide range of authors ... Read more

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Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the seventh in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 7 in the series spans the years 1857 to 1901, contains ghost stories set at or around Christmas, and includes stories from a wide range of authors
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 1

J Y Ackerman to Edward Bulwer-Lytton

by Juhani Aho, A J Alan, Grant Allen, Edmondo de Amicus, F Anstey, Richard Harris Barham, Sabine Baring-Gould, Max Beerbohm, A C Benson, R H Benson, Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe, Samuel Blas, Fredric Brown, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

13 hours 35 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 1

Embrace the darkness

by Achmed Abdullah, J Y Ackerman, Leonid Andreyev, F Anstey, Alice and Claude Askew, Gertrude Atherton.wav, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Mary Austin, Louisa Baldwin, Louisa Baldwin, Honore de Balzac0, Richard Harris Barham1, Sabine Baring-Gould2, Robert Barr3, Charles Baudelaire4, Barbara Baynton5, Harold Begbie6, Arnold Bennett7, Stella Benson8, A C Benson9, E F Benson0, R H Benson1, Ambrose Bierce2 ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley3, David Shaw-Parker4, Robert Maskell5 ...

Unabridged

11 hours 40 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
Negotiating Reconciliation in Peacemaking

Quandaries of Relationship Building

Edited by Mark Anstey, Valerie Rosoux ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book offers a unique approach to reconciliation as a matter for negotiation, bringing together two bodies of theory in order to offer insights into resolving conflicts and achieving lasting peace. It argues that reconciliation should not be simply accepted as an ‘agreed-upon norm’ within peacemaking processes, but should receive serious attention from belligerents and peace-brokers seeking to ... Read more

$80.09 USD

This book offers a unique approach to reconciliation as a matter for negotiation, bringing together two bodies of theory in order to offer insights into resolving conflicts and achieving lasting peace. It argues that reconciliation should not be simply accepted as an ‘agreed-upon norm’ within peacemaking processes, but should receive serious attention from belligerents and peace-brokers seeking to
... Read more

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Volume 1

by Alastair Gunn, Dinah Maria Craik, Catherine Ann Crowe, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Isabella Banks, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rhoda Broughton, Ellen Wood, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell, Mary E. Penn, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Vernon Lee, Rosa Mulholland, Lettice Galbraith, Louisa Baldwin, Katharine Tynan, Gertrude Atherton, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Elizabeth Gaskell ...

Series Book 1 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and American. Includes tales by ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age.Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories from a wide range of female authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and American. Includes tales by
... Read more
The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Volume 8

by Alastair Gunn ...

Series Book 8 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the eighth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 8 in the series contains stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1838 and 1895. Most of these tales are here anthologised for the very first ... Read more

$2.72 USD

Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the eighth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 8 in the series contains stories published anonymously in America and Britain between 1838 and 1895. Most of these tales are here anthologised for the very first
... Read more

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