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The Defence of Duffer's Drift
- Author: Swinton Ernest Dunlop
- Genre: Parodies
The Defence of Duffer's Drift is a book written by Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, who was an eyewitness of several wars and moreover Lieutenant during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). In the book he gives a detailed account of the event, mostly describing the tactics used while defending the river crossing by 50 men of an infantry. He summarizes the war’s resume not omitting faults and mistakes that enemies never forgive. Swinton gives lessons, so thoroughly explaining every action and using special war terms that the reader can learn much from that.
Indiscretions of Archie
- Author: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville
- Genre: Humor
The novel of P. G. Wodehouse is actually a collection of short stories, connected by common line of narration. The main character, unfortunate Archie, finds himself in a situation of a growing up conflict with his short of temper and rigid father-in-law, millionaire Mr. Brewster. With all this going on, every Archie’s false step turns round to be a good fortune. So, with the help of his charming wife Lucille, he makes himself career out of series of disasters. Scenes and characters, alternating each other in a cheerful bustle, won’t let readers to be bored, but captivated by irresistible humorous style on writing.
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…
In Defense of Women
- Author: Mencken Henry Louis
- Genre: Humor
In Defense of Women is a peculiar collection of double standards and incorrect stereotypes, which till nowadays are widespread among people. Mencken’s purpose was to disprove at least some of these harmful opinions. To support his position he cited numerous examples of the female's overwhelming skill and cunning.
The book of a great interest, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes humorous, it fixed Mencken's reputation as a satirical writer.
The Little Nugget
- Author: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville
- Genre: Humor
“The Little Nugget” is one of the earliest works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, an English writer, whose prolific writings continue to be widely read.
An eleven-year-old Ogden Ford, a pompous, overweight son of an American millionaire is a costly target for several separate kidnappers, trying to get hold of this unpleasant child. Both thriller and romance, it is a wonderful example of Wodehouse's classic comedy. The light-hearted story is full of amusing characters and humorous situations, though sometimes melancholic, falling into reflections on love.
Psmith, Journalist
- Author: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville
- Genre: Humor
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, classic of English comic prose of the 20th century, is a creator of legendary Jeeves and Wooster, as well as numerous other characters, whose brilliant aphorisms have already become common, popular sayings. “Psmith, Journalist” relates of an untiring adventurer, who gets into a pretty mess at every turn, trying to busy himself with something useful. All the problems that follow are solved in an elegant and ingenious manner. It is a story, full of sparkling humor, about unimaginable adventures of a high society idler. Coming to a conclusion that good old England it is too much for his great ideas, Psmith sets off to New York, where he finds himself in the centre of criminal events.
Who Moved My Cheese?
- Author: Dr Spencer Johnson
- Genre: Humor
What the message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.
Survivor
- Author: Chuck Palahniuk
- Genre: Satire
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of a religious cult, chronicles his entire life story as he is set to plummet to his death aboard a jet liner. He relives his childhood, his dull jobs cleaning rich people's houses, and how he came to be the pseudo-savior the world was looking for