В книге представлены избранные рассказы популярного в начале XX века писателя-юмориста Аркадия Аверченко (1881–1925). Среди них и собственно юмористические произведения, где веселый аверченковский смех звучит в полный голос, и рассказы «с грустинкой», лишь окрашенные присущим автору юмором, и написанные с теплотой и грустью произведения о детях, интересные в равной мере и детям и взрослым.
“ is not just a hilarious novel, but a record of a particular peak in the history of human folly. No one is more capable of dealing with the transition from the hell of socialism to the hell of capitalism in Eastern Europe than Shteyngart, the great-great grandson of one Nikolai Gogol and the funniest foreigner alive.”–Aleksandar HemonFrom the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of comes the uproarious and poignant story of one very fat man and one very small countryMeet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son ...
Originally, this work was posted on the Guardian newspaper website, in at least 94 installments from November 1999 to October 2001. Set between the novels and .
In this classic crack-up of a book, Dave Barry gives his wacky perspective on sex, childbirth, parenting and other forms of slow, cruel torture.In , Dave exposes natural childbirth for what it is: a pop phenomenon of the 1960s that, along with paisley bell-bottoms and creative sideburns, deserves a rest. He examines the new federal law requiring prospective fathers to free themselves from their self-made macho prisons—to laugh, cry, love and just generally behave like certified wimps.Dave also reveals, for the first time in print, the secret chant for painless childbirth.Then learn why no secret chant could possibly take a woman’s mind off the fact that she is in such pain that she wants a gigantic comet to crash into the earth and kill her and her husband and the doctor and the nurses and everyone else in the world.
Eine vergn?gliche Lekt?re, und zwar nicht nur f?r Kinder, sind diese acht lustigen Geschichten von Kishon, den man den "Weltmeister des Humors" nannte. Hier zum Beispiel behauptet er, da? die Waschmaschine auch nur ein Mensch sei, begibt sich zusammen mit seiner Frau auf M?usejagd, entwirrt - vergeblich - den Stammbaum des angeblichen Dackels Franzi und besteht manch andere heitere Abenteuer, ehe er vor versammelter Familie ?ber einen gestreiften stolpert.Zahlreiche, teils farbige Zeichnungen von Friedrich Kohlsaat erh?hen noch den Reiz dieses Geschichtenbuches.
