Humour category: 17948 books
Simple Thoughts in a complex world
Thoughts on life, death, faith, love and mayonnaise sandwiches
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Warm, insightful and thought-provoking blogs on life, death and everything else that makes up this often bumpy journey we are all travellers on.
Sometimes, the most extra-ordinary moments in life are kept from us, not because they are necessarily well hidden but because we seem to have lost...
by Ebenezer Jackson-Firefly
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
This is a compilation of one hundred (generally inoffensive) jokes, some short, some long.Each joke is given a title and is numbered.They vary in length - from very short (a couple of lines) to fairly long (thirty lines plus).After the main body of jokes there is a section which explains...
by Ebenezer Jackson-Firefly
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
This is a compilation of one hundred (generally inoffensive) jokes. Each joke is given a title and is numbered.They vary in length - from very short (a couple of lines) to fairly long (thirty lines plus).After the main body of jokes there is a section which explains each one for readers...
by Ada Adverse
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
’This fun and feminist series of humour books celebrates the sisterhood with a wry smile.’ – Red Have you ever…? A) Wondered whether January really is the best time to start your new diet, with all that grey weather and leftover Christmas cheese around? B) Taken your phone to the off-license...
by Marcel Lucont
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Marcel Lucont France's premier misanthropist and lover introduces the reader to the British character as seen through the eyes of the French. From food and weather to television and pets he shares his disdainful opinion on all things British and offers advice on just why the French do it so much...
by Ebenezer Jackson-Firefly
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This is a compilation of one hundred (generally inoffensive) jokes, some short, some long. Each joke is given a title and is numbered.They vary in length - from very short (a couple of lines) to fairly long (thirty lines plus).After the main body of jokes there is a section which explains...
by Ebenezer Jackson-Firefly
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
This is a compilation of one hundred (generally inoffensive) jokes, some short, some long. Each joke is given a title and is numbered.They vary in length - from very short (a couple of lines) to fairly long (thirty lines plus).After the main body of jokes there is a section which explains...
My Family and Other Strangers
Adventures in Family History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard. Other legends ranged from the...
Humor - A Friend in the Library - Volume VI
A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes - In Twelve Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In volume six,...
A Bold Stroke for a Husband
A Comedy in Five Acts
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Although "The Bold Stroke for a Husband," by Mrs. Cowley, does not equal "The Bold Stroke for a Wife," by Mrs. Centlivre, either in originality of design, wit, or humour, it has other advantages more honourable to her sex, and more conducive to the reputation of the stage.
Here is contained...
Rowdy Rhymes and Rec-im-itations
Best of Irish Humour
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
For about 300 years Dubliners have been creating ballads, ‘rec-im-itations’ and parodies – commenting in verse form – with a mischievous disregard for both the laws of libel and the canons of poetry – on everything from social events, public affairs, the city’s monuments and institutions,...
by John Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
For many years it was assumed that poetry came from England. Research now clearly demonstrates, however, that a great many of the world's most famous poets were actually Australians.
English is a language relatively new to Australia and obviously in a nation so young there can be no Icelandic...
by D.J. Smithers
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2015
There have been many authoritative books written on the Pennine Way but hardly any that put into detail the hardships and the humour endured along Britain's toughest long distance walk. This book hopes to redress this imbalance towards the plethora of guidebooks written by hardened fell walkers extolling...
Everything I Know I Learned From TV
Philosophy For the Unrepentant Couch Potato
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Everything I Know I Learned From TV uses characters we all know and love and their TV worlds to explain the great questions of philosophy. The only qualifications you need to join in are ownership of a sofa, a remote control, a sense of humour and an enquiring mind. The philosophy discussed is very...