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La oscuridad de Guayaquil que muestra Gabriela Alemán en su novela Poso Wells, parece surgir del sedimento (el poso) del cuento de Wells. El país de los ciegos ambientado en Los Andes ecuatorianos. La novela continúa ese mito, el resabio de ese mito, y hace aflorar del fondo, lo monstruoso latinoamericano, a través de lo grotesco, la fantasía desaforada, el comic.

Ils n'ont qu'une addiction : le sang. Mais depuis plus de vingt ans, ils ont décidé de renoncer à leur péché mignon et de se désintoxiquer. Pas facile d'être un vampire urbain au XXIe siècle ! Dans une banlieue british tout ce qu'il y a de plus respectable, les Radley essayent désespérément de se comporter comme « des gens normaux ». Mais des vampires de souche peuvent-ils définitivement refouler leurs désirs et leurs instincts ? Pas sûr.

In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and soon finds himself the manager of the Hotel Honolulu, a low-rent establishment a few blocks off the beach.

"Пропавшая грамота" — повесть Николая Васильевича Гоголя из цикла "Вечера на хуторе близ Диканьки". Написана предположительно в 1829—1831 годах. Это история о том, как однажды дед Фомы Григорьевича отправился к царице с грамотой от гетмана. Но на его пути то и дело происходить всякая чертовщина... Произведение пленяет неповторимым авторским стилем повествования и описанием сказочных событий, произошедших на хуторе близ Диканьки.

"Нос" — сатирическая абсурдистская повесть, написанная Николаем Васильевичем Гоголем в 1832—1833 годах. Впервые опубликована в журнале "Современник" в 1836. Единство тонкого гоголевского юмора и ярких зарисовок тогдашней бытовой жизни делает это шуточное произведение особенным.

Alles auf Anfang. So lautet die scheinbare Endlosschleife, in der sich Thorge Krieger befindet. Er unternimmt wieder und wieder Versuche, sesshaft zu werden, um dann doch erneut aufzubrechen. Mal ist er Langzeitstudent in Berlin. Mal ist er Mitglied einer Boygroup mit viel Attitüde, aber schlechten Songs. Und mal ist er Bewohner einer WG mit einem eigenwilligen Therapiekonzept im Saarland. Wird Thorge seine Wanderschaft beenden können? Und nebenbei gefragt: Worum geht es eigentlich bei Eskalationsstufe zwei?

Искатели приключений — сатирическая зарисовка американского новеллиста XIX века О. Генри (англ. O. Henry, 1862–1910). Рассказчик твердо убежден, что на свете есть приключения, перед которыми меркнет даже африканское сафари и охота на слонов. Автор историй с неожиданной развязкой, О. Генри известен по ряду новелл "Орден золотого колечка", "Брильянт богини Кали", "Тысяча долларов, Сыщики", "Золото", "которое блеснуло", "Багдадская птица", "Алое платье и Комфорт".

A satirical and complex Fantasy novel featuring one of the last remaining Dragons and his efforts to coexist with mankind.

Susy Branch (Tavi Gevinson) and Nick Lansing (Adam DiMarco) aren’t into each other, but they share a similar problem. Susy is a down-on-her-luck socialite who doesn’t want to get a real job, and Nick is a struggling writer who’s tired of tutoring the kids of the one percent. All of their wealthier friends are getting married, to seemingly lucrative results. So, Susy and Nick devise a plan: have a wedding.

Best Seller de O. Henry es un cuento humorístico que satiriza a la industria editorial. La narrativa se desarrolla cuando un autor, al intentar crear un bestseller, descubre sin darse cuenta la imprevisibilidad del gusto popular. El ingenio y la ironía de O. Henry son evidentes a medida que la historia explora la naturaleza voluble del éxito literario.

While writing my book, Donald Trump Adventures: The Demonrats, I introduced the characters Alexander Dracul, Doctor Van Helsing and ace news reporter Alicia. It was just that I had ran out of ideas for more political humor, satire, I needed to fill my book and the fifteen individual filler short stories about a vigilant vampire fighting crime just seemed to fit. Now Alexander Dracul says goodbye to the Demonrats and spreads his own wings in a book that is all about him, his friends and allies.

John’s House provides all he needs. Surrounded by a vast, beautiful ocean under a void of sky, the House is John’s haven. He is alone, but never lonely; he is here now, but neither remembers nor longs for a before. In his House, John is safe and untroubled. But then a terrible shadow creature breaks in—and it wants him out. Pushed from the House, John falls into the light… And finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles, the first person to ever come back from the other side.

The duck is over.

Una novela satírica de Frederik Pohl. Explora una sociedad futura donde los baby boomers envejecidos toman el poder, lo que lleva a un cómico choque de generaciones y agitación social.

Vince Locker's life is tragic. His comedy act for the LaughCom competition has just bombed, ruining any chance of the cash prize he desperately needed. His life is in tatters; abandoned by his father as a child, an estranged wife, Jessica, who he seems to disappoint just by his mere existence, and living in his mother's house with his bipolar brother and facing foreclosure. As he stands on Smith Avenue Bridge, suicide seems the only option until he is unexpectedly rescued by an old school mortician named Truss. Vince meets another of Truss's rescues, Winona.

“Creemos que somos únicos e irrepetibles. Nos han vendido la idea (y sin dudarlo la hemos comprado) de que nadie es como nosotros. Pero la realidad es que nos parecemos tanto a los demás que no nos damos cuenta. Crecemos con la necesidad de sentirnos integrados a nuestra comunidad y nos hacemos dependientes de las masas. Hacemos lo que hacen los demás, queremos ser como la gente que admiramos. Somos todo lo que vemos, escuchamos, leemos, comemos, bebemos, compramos, amamos y odiamos. Vivimos con el instinto gregario a flor de piel”.

Всемирно известный канадский юморист Стивен Ликок создал более тридцати сборников сатирических эссе и рассказов. Его остроумные произведения противоречат общественным нормам, высмеивают человеческие слабости, показывая мир, в котором логика уступает место причудам и воображению. Рассказы, представленные в этом сборнике, благодаря особому, неповторимому стилю Ликока, помогут вам отдохнуть от повседневной суеты и получить заряд позитивных эмоций и хорошего настроения.

Meet Peter Brown, a young Manhattan emergency room doctor with an unusual past that is just about to catch up with him. His morning begins with the quick disarming of a would-be mugger, followed by a steamy elevator encounter with a sexy young pharmaceutical rep, topped off by a visit with a new patient - and from there Peter's day is going to get a whole lot worse and a whole lot weirder.

Kallie—as her super-sized, super-hero self—has had a hard day, and literally the last thing she needs is to find out another Alterant is running loose. And when AB's Phi-ger goes off, she's hardly pleased. But genuine worry starts to overtake her, as this time, it's Zeus who's digested the radioactive doughnuts. If he's compromised, Zeus could easily reveal Fatgirl's true identity to the world, and what else could be his worst fear? Along with AB, Kallie races over to save him. Only to be met with the shock of her life.

It's about a little dole bludging bogun loser from the Hawkesbury in Sydney Australia. As our story begins, he discovers he has two brothers whom he never knew he had, is heir to a multi-million dollar fortune and that the pheromone wipes in the new machine at the Imperial Hotel really do drive women wild. He gathers around him an unlikely retinue of odd characters, goes to Japan, is chased by the Yakuza and becomes part of a punk band called Ferret and the Pheromones.