検索キーワード： ユーモア・風刺文学・フィクション

Eine Kreuzfahrt, die ist tödlich... Zur Silberhochzeit soll der Traum von Polizistengattin Heike Detlefsen endlich wahr werden: Gemeinsam mit Thies, vielen Fredenbüllern und anderen illustren Passagieren bricht man zu einer Kreuzfahrt ins Nordmeer auf. Doch als ein Sturm aufkommt, muss der Kapitän zwei in Seenot geratene Männer an Bord nehmen. Und auf einmal ist Schluss mit ausgelassener Kreuzfahrtstimmung. Die Männer entpuppen sich als gefährliche Gangster, die das gesamte Schiff in ihre Gewalt bringen.

Nick Winter hates Christmas. No, he doesn’t just hate it. He loathes it. Despises it. And all because he saw his mummy killing Santa Claus on Christmas Eve thirty years ago. Oh, and it was his dad dressed as Santa ... December is the worst time of year, but as a postman, Nick is forced to...

During World War II, the Jewish people developed an intense cultural activity in concentration camps, extermination camps, and ghettos. Theater, music, cabaret, and opera were the pillars of the spiritual resistance that enabled their survival. This book is dedicated to Jewish humor and cabaret...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a collection of one short story by Oscar Wilde, performed by an AI voice. The title story is a witty, darkly comic tale about fate, duty, and the lengths a person may go to in order to escape a prophecy. Set amid the...

For seven years, HellTV has watched Lucian Voss work. The frightening part is that Hell never taught him how. Eighteen years on one perfect scheme: his father's empire, taken without force, without theft, without ever raising his voice. When the old man goes down on his own boardroom floor...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Beyond a remote mountain range lies Erewhon, a mysterious land where the rules of society are unlike anything the outside world has ever known. When a curious young traveler discovers this isolated civilization, he encounters a world of astonishing...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm is a single short story presented here as a complete audiobook in English, narrated by an AI voice. It is a witty literary fantasy about ambition, reputation, and the longing to outlive one's own obscurity. The story follows...

Precedents in Piperock by W. C. Tuttle is a hilarious classic Western short story packed with cowboy humor, outrageous pranks, and small-town chaos. When Sheriff Magpie Simpkins attempts to organize a peaceful Fourth of July celebration, a runaway balloon, a disastrous baseball game, and the...

Love Island meets Jurassic Park meets Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle in this twisted, thrilling satire about a group of influencers looking for love . . . only to find horrors awaiting them in paradise, and a group of producers plotting a wicked finale. They're dying for a chance at...

Danielle adopted a cat because the shelter photo made him look dignified and low-maintenance. Two weeks later, he told her, without preamble, that her date was going to cancel.He was right.Winston is blunt, unbothered, and always — infuriatingly — correct. He vets her dating app matches with...

The cocaine export business has a new player, Hector de Oliveira—a highborn Brazilian aristocrat with an eye for new markets. When profits fall in Latin America, de Oliveira eyes a new frontier. In Australia, advertising mogul Frank Quinlivan has built a successful business empire, a beautiful life, a young wife, and a yacht. Being a player in the world of high-stakes business is challenging enough—until… A missing shipment sends Oliveira’s flawless drug smuggling operation off Sydney’s coast into chaos. Enter Quinlivan.

فنّانٌ جوّالٌ، وممثّلٌ، ومُغنٍّ، وبهلوانٌ، ومُهرّجٌ، ومُستفزٌّ، وغامضٌ، ومتمرّدٌ، ولمصافحته أثرٌ كملمس الشيطان، وابتسامته تشقّ الغيوم، يراقبك دائماً، ولا...

מכללת קורבין, לא־ממש־צפון מדינת ניו יורק, חורף 1959–1960: רוּבֶּן בלום, היסטוריון יהודי – אך לא היסטוריון של היהודים – מצורף לוועדה הבוחנת את מועמדותו של חוקר ישראלי...

ד'ר גארין, גבר נאה ורופא נמרץ, מוכרח להגיע לכפר מרוחק שמגפה מסוכנת מכה בו, כדי לשים לה קץ בעזרת החיסון שבידו. אבל בחוץ משתוללת סופה, ובלית ברירה הוא עולה על מגלשת שלג...

Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth...when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Kal.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

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The comedy sci-fi classic, read by Stephen Fry. The intergalactic adventures of Arthur Dent begin in the first volume of the 'trilogy of five', Douglas Adams' comedy sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 'By turns authoritative as the narrator, bemused as Arthur Dent, deadpan as...

The animals of Manor Farm are in the midst of a revolution. Overworked and mistreated, they set themselves against Mr Jones and with flaming idealism and stirring slogans they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality; only to find that revolution isn’t always so simple.

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital. On a typical day in Baby...