検索キーワード： ユーモア・風刺文学・フィクション

What if a deadly poison was the only cure for a broken life? Mr. Coombes is a henpecked shopkeeper pushed to the absolute brink of despair by his ungrateful wife. Fleeing into the damp pine woods, he contemplates a dark, watery end to his miserable existence - until a strange, eerie object...

"An enthralling, irreverent read." —Ruth Madievsky, bestselling author of All-Night Pharmacy "Any reader who has ever felt doubt, anxiety, or a tinge of obsession will relate to Astrid, which is to say, all of us." —Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Fonseca and Rules for Visiting...

Fitch is an orphan, a servant to dogs, and the lowest of the low in Castle Blacking, but he is a boy in love and he'll face untold terrors to prove himself. Karyzu is a blaggart, a brawler and a drunk, but he's also a legendary sword fighter and the only man around who has journeyed through Hell and lived to tell about it. Pursuing them both is Clayton Dower, the mysterious grave digger who won't rest until he sees what belongs buried stay buried.

Steel Magnolias meets Schitt’s Creek with the heart of This is Us. At fifty, Hope Hall has done everything right. She earned a PhD, built a career, and held her marriage together with determination and stubborn denial. When her life publicly unravels, Hope returns to her hometown in Texas, and the loud, loving, opinionated family who never quite understood her. Surrounded by her four sisters, who make everything bigger, messier, and usually a public spectacle, she expects the chaos, the old grudges, and small-town rivalries that always seem to involve toilet paper and bail money.

Everything is fine. It just doesn’t look like it. Dan has a plan. He just hasn’t started it yet. After a series of completely reasonable decisions—losing his job, his marriage, and most of his stability—Dan finds himself in a temporary situation. One that is, by all accounts, under control. Told through his calm, measured perspective, Everything Is Fine follows a man who insists nothing is wrong… while everything clearly is. As his world quietly unravels, Dan reframes each setback as progress, each warning sign as misunderstanding, and every ending as “not quite final.

Fünfundzwanzig Jahre verheiratet. Eigentlich ein Grund für eine große Silberhochzeitsfeier mit der ganzen Verwandtschaft. Elke und ihr Mann sehen das anders. Statt sich feiern zu lassen, möchten sie lieber etwas tun, das sie in all den gemeinsamen Jahren noch nie ausprobiert haben: Campen. Es gibt nur ein kleines Problem. Sie haben weder einen Wohnwagen noch Erfahrung und eigentlich auch keine Vorstellung davon, worauf sie sich einlassen.

In diesem Text in Hörbuchform wird eine humoristische Analyse der Spezies Rentner und Beamte vorgenommen und der Gegenstand von Balzacs schmunzelnder Betrachtung ist im Allgemeinen gesprochen der Alltag. Der Titel hält also, was er verspricht: Teil 5 der Aufsätze des Alltags.

Uma confraria de gourmets que não renuncia ao prazer da comida, ainda que isso possa significar sua própria morte. Um verdadeiro ensaio sobre a natureza humana, o clássico livro de Luis Fernando Verissimo é também uma insólita e bem-humorada celebração a um dos mais notórios pecados...

Was haben ein angehender Burnout-Coach, ein Arbeitsloser und ein Pizzabäcker gemeinsam? Nicht viel – bis die drei beschließen, dem großen Mafioso der Stadt die Stirn zu bieten. Natürlich bleibt das nicht ohne Folgen. Sie erregen die Aufmerksamkeit von Frankie Corleone und geraten ins Visier von Kommissar Jago.

増強された呪術の力で、次こそは現代人たちを呪い殺す……つもりが、またしても幸せにしてしまう!? 笑いと涙と怒濤の伏線回収に翻弄される、シリーズ第2弾！ お梅、ぱわああっぷ!!!!

It's a disaster! Sir Simon, the vaunted Canterville Ghost, has had years of success haunting the family mansion, centuries of wailing moans, rattling chains and phantasmagoria... and what should the Canterville family do, but sell up the house! But it gets worse! They've sold the house to...

Walter Wilding has lived his life secure in the knowledge that he was the son of his mother. But a chance encounter shocks him to his deathbed, leaving his friend and Executor George Vendale charged with the finding of the real Walter Wilding, Meanwhile George pitches woo to Margerite Obenreizer...

Originally published in the Strand Magazine between December 1894 and September 1903. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle, the celebrated author of Sherlock Holmes and the Lost, follows the adventures of Brigadier Etienne Gerard, a courageous soldier in the service of Napoleon...

"I’ll tell you what, we must go and seek for treasure: it is always what you do to restore the fallen fortunes of your House..." And so begins the tales of the Bastable children (all six of them) and their attempts at treasure seeking, never with any great fiscal success, but with plenty of...

A collection of short stories from the celebrated irish writer and dramatist: Oscar Wilde. Included within this collection are the stories: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: Lady Windermere's pet palm-reader delivers a fearful oracle to Lord Arthur, but being a resolute gentlemen he knows just what to...

After moving into a house in kent, five children go exploring and in a gravel pit, find a Sand Fairy, known as a "Psammead" who says he will give them one wish each day. What follows are eleven misadventures where it is discovered that making a good wish is actually much harder than it first...

A four act play by Oscar Wilde, first performed in 1892, Lady Windermere's Fan is another one of his productions that takes a half-sardonic, half-serious look into the intrigues of life. In this play, Lady Windermere's idyllic life as the young wife of the rich Lord Windermere is disturbed by...

Paste Jewels is a collection of humorous short stories following the Perkins family — particularly newlyweds Thaddeus and Bessie — as they navigate the comic trials of managing a household and domestic staff in late 19th-century America. The book's seven tales include "The Emancipation of...

A retired lawyer, an unlicensed contractor, and an ex-ballplayer walk into a bar . . . and transform their neighborhood. With a dark secret weighing heavily on his conscience, former government lawyer Oliver Bartholomew teams with two buddies to perform random acts of kindness in their Adams...

Have a laugh with these delightfully funny short stories. All reflect on the humor and absurdity of life. Join in the fun!