Providing a myriad of viewpoints that look at the world through a filter of irony, incongruity, satire, parody, nonsense, and truth, this guide focuses on people—the tourist, the maitre d', the throngs that pass by your cafe. Full, but not stuffed, with stories, memoirs, character sketches, descriptions, light verse, drawings, and cartoons. Preparations and arrival, the sights and the haute cuisine, gambling, mountain climbing, and speaking French, even coming home and telling the neighbors, it's all here.

Savoir Rire: The Humorists' Guide to France (Humorists' Guides)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Catbird Press

A humorous anthology which portrays an England glorying in its foibles, its delights and above all in its history. Contributions from writers as far removed as Mark Twain, Henry James and Will Rogers show how Americans have viewed England and its people over the years.

In a Fog: The Humorists' Guide to England

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

A collection of the best legal humor by famous humorists and legal humorists such as Mark Twain, Robert Benchley, Groucho Marx, S. J. Perelman; William Prosser, Thurman Arnold, and John Mortimer. Also contains the best work of such contemporary legal humorists as S. Sponte, Arnold B. Kanter, and Daniel R. White himself. Also included are cartoons from the New Yorker, Punch, and the Wall Street Journal.

Trials and Tribulations: Appealing Legal Humor

Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader

Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot.

World Literature

Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot.

Contemporary

This trilogy of novels was the culmination of Karel Capek's career. The novels share neither characters nor events; instead, they approach the problem of knowing people—of mutual understanding—in a variety of ways. Detectives faced with a murder reconstruct the crime, but not the character of the man who was murdered. Three people tell stories about a dying pilot they know almost nothing about; each story is as full of truth as it is devoid of facts. And one man looks back on his life and discovers all the people he might have been. Together, these three short novels form a readable philosophical novel unique in world literature.

Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, An Ordinary Life

Čapek, Karel

Short Stories & Anthologies

War With The Newts

One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut, at last in a modern translation. Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that the newts gain skills and arms enough to challenge man's place at the top of the animal kingdom. Along the way, Karel Capek satirizes science, runaway capitalism, fascism, journalism, militarism, even Hollywood.

War with the Newts

With humor in the tradition of Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman, this collection of three previous works reveals the absurdities of life in a law firm through the mythically inept firm of Fairweather, Winters &amp; Sommers. In Advanced Law Firm Mismanagement, the firm's founder, Stanley Fairweather, discusses the good—and not-so-good—old days and looks ahead with a bit of trepidation at where the profession is going. In The Ins &amp; Outs of Law Firm Mismanagement, lawyers are viewed through the eyes of the firm's non-lawyers—secretaries, paralegals, the computer geek—who know better than anyone else how ridiculous lawyers can be. And in Was That a Tax Lawyer Who Just Flew Over? the lawyers are shown from the point of view of their clients and other outsiders.

The Handbook of Law Firm Mismanagement: From the Offices of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers

Kanter, Arnold B.

Full of humor and insight, this book offers a look at the United States from the perspective of traveling foreigners and Americans traveling outside their corner of the country. The cities, resorts, sights, customs, and people are observed by humorists such as Mark Twain, James Thurber, Robert Benchley, Art Buchwald, and Russell Baker; travel writers such as Jonathan Raban, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alistair Cooke, Charles Kuralt, and Margaret Powell; literary figures such as Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, Mary McCarthy, William Golding, and Anthony Trollope; and cartoonists from The New Yorker and Punch. In addition, readers can eavesdrop on what writers from such countries as Canada, Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Israel write about the U.S. when they get home.

Here We Are: The Humorists' Guide to the United States

When the owner of Oregon's largest cattle ranch, The Four Arrows, is shot by his horse in a freak accident, Royal Leckner suddenly finds himself charged with teaching the owner's mentally retarded son to take over management of the ranch. The son, Leviticus Perrault, comes as part of an unmatched set, which includes Toofer, a man split between bickering Confederate and Union personalities; Tommy Two Hearts, half-white, half-Indian, and half-paralyzed; and Lou(ella), an idiot savant. With the help of some cowhands and an uppity lady accountant, Royal and his crew try to run the ranch despite the connivings of the entire county.

The Four Arrows Fe-As-Ko

Platt, Randall Beth

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Savoir Rire: The Humorists' Guide to France (Humorists' Guides)

In a Fog: The Humorists' Guide to England

Trials and Tribulations: Appealing Legal Humor

Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader

Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader

Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, An Ordinary Life

War with the Newts

The Handbook of Law Firm Mismanagement: From the Offices of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers

Here We Are: The Humorists' Guide to the United States

The Four Arrows Fe-As-Ko