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Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers...
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Selected works of humor and criticism by a revered American master. Beloved by millions, Mark Twain is the quintessential American writer. More than anyone else, his blend of skepticism, caustic wit and sharp prose defines a certain American mythos. While his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is still taught to anyone who attends school and is considered by many to be the Great American Novel, Twain's shorter stories and criticisms have unequalled...
5) Dead souls
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In this comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit.
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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...
10) Mark Twain
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 535
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Mark Twain.
11) James Thurber
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Twayne's United States authors volume 62
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of James Thurber.
12) Garrison Keillor
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Garrison Keillor.
13) Ludwig Bemelmans
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Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 665
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ludwig Bemelmans.