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O. Henry Strictly Business

Business & Economics
English
70689 Words
Ages 18 and up
5
3

I Suppose You Know All About The Stage And Stage People. You've Been Touched With And By Actors, And You Read The Newspaper Criticisms And The Jokes In The Weeklies About The Rialto And The Chorus Girls And The Long-Haired Tragedians. And I Suppose That A Condensed List Of Your Ideas About The Mysterious Stageland Would Boil Down To Something Like This: Leading Ladies Have Five Husbands, Paste Diamonds, And Figures No Better Than Your Own (Madam) If They Weren't Padded. Chorus Girls Are Inseparable From Peroxide, Panhards And Pittsburg. [more]

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Gordon Randall Garrett The Eyes Have It

Fiction
English
15767 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections, set in an alternate world where a joint Anglo-French empire still led by a Plantagenet dynasty has survived into the twentieth century and where magic works and has been scientifically codified. The Darcy books are rich in jokes, puns, and references (particularly to works of detective and spy fiction: Lord Darcy is himself partially modelled on Sherlock Holmes), elements that often appear in the shorter works about the detective. Michael Kurland wrote two additional Lord Darcy novels. [more]

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Gordon Randall Garrett The Eyes Have It

Fiction
English
15805 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Garrett is best known for the Lord Darcy books, the novel Too Many Magicians and two short story collections, set in an alternate world where a joint Anglo-French empire still led by a Plantagenet dynasty has survived into the twentieth century and where magic works and has been scientifically codified. The Darcy books are rich in jokes, puns, and references (particularly to works of detective and spy fiction: Lord Darcy is himself partially modelled on Sherlock Holmes), elements that often appear in the shorter works about the detective. Michael Kurland wrote two additional Lord Darcy novels. [more]

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Mary H. Northend Historic Homes

Fiction
English
55681 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

lumbering stage and jolly drivers, who snapped their whips and cracked their jokes around a cheerful, open fire while waiting for the incoming ships. The large, square homes of yesterday are now degenerated into tenement houses. Three of the most prominent merchants of that day were William Grey, Joseph Peabody, and Elias Hasket Derby. They owned the greater number of the ships that sailed to foreign ports, and their names are household words. On the wharves still stand their old counting-houses, now put to other uses. [more]

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Judy Colella A Block Of Time

Fantasy
English
3713 Words
Ages 14 and up
887
8

My name is Silver. No, I'm not the Lone Ranger's horse, thank you. What I am, apparently, is a time-traveler. An unwilling one. All I wanted to do was go to lunch, but instead of heading out the door of the law office where I worked, I found myself in a forest, staring up at a dwarf on a stegosaurus. This is my journal, memoir, whatever you want to call it, of my inexplicable adventure through time. Hey, you got a sandwich you could share with me? To all those whose brains play practical jokes on them at the worst times... [more]

Keywords: Time travel, Humor, Fantasy and magic

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Peter G Kinnon Unusual Perspectives

An Escape From Tunnel Vision

Science
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
1335
19

Is humankind soon to be superseded by a new dominant life-form? Are we heading towards a world in which all goods and services are essentially free and traffic congestion practically nil? How much Imagination is in a can of beans? Why does the human animal uniquely do so much unusual stuff? Sports, Arts, Sciences, Technologies? What is so very special about glass? Are computers very different from minds? When reduced to basics, does money correspond to gravity? How could that possibly be? Why do we laugh at jokes? Is the human consciousness best thought of as simply a navigator? Did warfare play an important part in the development of language? ALL THESE QUESTIONS ARE ADDRESSED IN "Unusual Perspectives". ODDLY, THEY CONVERGE INTO A COHERENT PATTERN. A PREVIOUSLY UNDEFINED " BIG PICTURE" WHICH MAY HAVE IMPORTANT PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR SURVIVAL. [more]

Keywords: Chemistry, Future, Evolution, Technology, Nuclear fusion, Mind, Consciousness, Language, Philosophy, Gravitation, Diamond, DNA, Computer, Moore's law, Faraday, Newton, Einstein, Feynman, Darwin, Dawkins, Hume, Economics, Purpose, String theory, Singularity, Periodic table, Glass, Carbon, Silicon, Semiconductor, Synapse, Neural network, Internet, Big bang, Universe, Nucleosynthesis, Star, Helium, Nuclear reactor, Nature, Photosynthesis [more][Less]

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Jordan Wadley, Amy Finley Living As A Fighter

Living As A Fighter

Fiction
English
4445 Words
Ages 16 and up
671
3

Some people are afraid of what they have yet to understand, and like many, Raychelle was someone many would categorize as misunderstood. At a younger age than most, losing her mother affected both her brother and her father. While some may turn to alcohol to dim the emotional pain, her father, Glenn, found another strategy. Living with an angry tempered and bitter man began to affect Raychelle as well and the fear she lived within daily began to play twisted jokes on her head. One day, when the games continue to go on too far, she's placed in a local hospital. Her brother, Tyler, not able to handle seeing his sister go through so much pain takes her away. With the two sharing secrets from one another, lies are shared and secrets are uncovered between the two. Who knew one could hold such promise? [more]

Keywords: abuse, Lies, gang, love, trust, death, otherworldly, science-fiction, family linage, escape

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Laurence Stern The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Fiction
English
178863 Words
Ages 6 and up
177
1

Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne, published between 1759–1767. Sterne promises the “life and opinions” of his protagonist. Yet halfway through the fourth volume of nine, we are still in the first day of the hero’s life thanks to marvelous digressions and what the narrator calls “unforeseen stoppages”—detailing the quirky habits of his eccentric family members and their friends. This broken narrative is unified by Sterne’s comic touch, which shimmers in this thoroughly entertaining novel that harks back to Don Quixote and foreshadows Ulysses. But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale. [more]

Keywords: Laurence Stern, Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Life and Opinions, Narratives, Literature, Fiction, Yorick, Parson, Dictor Slop, Susannah, Uncle Toby, Comic Touch, Humour, Novel, Walter

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Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron, Vol. II

Fiction
English
164829 Words
Ages 18 and up
3
0

The Decameron (Italian: Decamerone), subtitled Prince Galehaut (Italian: Prencipe Galeotto), is a collection of novellas by the 14th-century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book is structured as a frame story containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death, which was afflicting the city. Boccaccio probably conceived the Decameron after the epidemic of 1348, and completed it by 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons contribute to the mosaic. In addition to its literary value and widespread influence (for example on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), it provides a document of life at the time. Written in the vernacular of the Florentine language, it is considered a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose.[1] [more]

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Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Fiction
English
89699 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

British humour is a somewhat general term applied to certain comedic motifs that are often prevalent in humour in the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth.[1] A strong theme of sarcasm and self-deprecation, often with deadpan delivery, runs throughout British humour.[2] Emotion is often buried under humour in a way that seems insensitive to other cultures.[3] Jokes are told about everything and almost no subject is taboo, though often a lack of subtlety when discussing controversial issues is considered crass.[4] Many UK comedy TV shows typical of British humour have been internationally popular, and have been an important channel for the export and representation of British culture to the international audience. [more]

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