Love Among the Chickens
- Author: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville
- Genre: Humor
The central character of the novel is Ukridge, a sort of beautiful dreamer who wanders about above the fray of dealing with reality. It’s quite dangerous to know him! He'll invite you out to have a dinner, discover he has no money, borrow the money from you and never return his debt. There is no to say, friends try to avoid him. Jeremy Garnet, the aspiring novelist, has successfully avoided his old school friend for some time when bad luck causes Ukridge to find Garnet's address. Soon, Ukridge is found barreling through the door along with the new Mrs. Ukridge to invite Garnet to the shore to co found an entrepreneurial enterprise, a chicken farm. In Ukridge's eyes, this is a made-to-order money machine. You borrow some chickens, raise some of your own, return the original chickens and your bounty expands from there. Naturally, neither Ukridge nor Garnet have any knowledge or experience about raising chickens to lay eggs. On the way to the shore, Garnet sees a lovely young woman who's reading one of his novels. He's immediately stunned, and the complications begin…
Cobb's Anatomy
- Author: Cobb Irvin Shrewsbury
- Genre: Humor
Cobb's Anatomy is a great and extremely interesting novel written by a prolific American author and journalist who wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. This story belongs to the hundred of best books of all times as it appealed to many generations of readers. It was republished a number of times and translated into various languages. In some countries Cobb's Anatomy is in the list of compulsory readings at schools.
From October to Brest-Litovsk
- Author: Trotzky Leon Davidovich
- Genre: General
This book written by Trotsky is about the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out of the First World War. The treaty exacted heavy losses for Russia in terms of annexations of land and financial indemnities to Germany. In this amazing essay, Trotsky argues the reasons as to why he decided to sign what appears to be a catastrophic agreement for Russia.