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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorIdle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Jerome K. Jerome · 112 pages
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. The essays cover a range of topics from "On Being in Love" to "On Furnished Apartments" to "On Getting on in the World". Jerome established himself as one of England's favorite wits with his comic novel Three Men in a Boat.
Essays of E.B. White
E.B. White · 288 pages
When E.B. White received the Gold Medal for Essays and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the following citation, here quoted in part, accompanied the award: "If we are remembered as a civilized era, I think it will be partly because of E.B. White. The historians of the future will decide that a writer of such grace and control could not have been produced by a generation
A Collection of Essays
George Orwell · 320 pages
Such, such were the joys ... -- Charles Dickens -- The art of Donald McGill -- Rudyard Kipling -- Raffles and Miss Blandish -- Shooting an elephant -- Politics and the English language -- Reflections on Gandhi -- Marrakech -- Looking back on the Spanish War -- Inside the whale -- England your England -- Boys' weeklies -- Why I write.
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Mark Twain · 36 pages
The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
Meghan Daum · 244 pages
"A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 129 pages
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the m
I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
Nora Ephron · 153 pages
A humorous collection of personal essays discusses the author's career in journalism, divorce, a long-anticipated inheritance with unanticipated results, and the evolution of her relationship with her e-mail in-box.
Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: And Other Lessons from Modern Life
David Mitchell · 336 pages
Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 240 pages
“Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss… —Kurt Vonnegut, from Fates Worse Than Death” From penguinrandomhouse.com
Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
David Rakoff · 222 pages
David Rakoff’s bestselling collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of today’s funniest and most insightful writers. Now, in Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff moves from the personal to the public, journeying into the land of unchecked plenty that is contemporary America. Rarely have greed, vanity, selfishness, and vapidity been so mercilessly and wittily skewered. S
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
Umberto Eco · 248 pages
How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody.". These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, mea
The Thurber Carnival
James Thurber · 369 pages
James Thurber's unique ability to convey the vagaries of life in a funny, witty, and often satirical way earned him accolades as one of the finest humorists of the twentieth century. A bestseller upon its initial publication in 1945, The Thurber Carnival captures the depth of his talent and the breadth of his wit. The stories compiled here, almost all of which first appeared in The New Yorker, are
Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
Sarah Vowell · 219 pages
"While tackling subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history, these autobiographical tales are written with a biting humor, placing Vowell solidly in the tradition of Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker. Vowell searches the streets of Hoboken for traces of the town's favorite son, Frank Sinatra. She goes under cover of heavy makeup in an investigation of goth culture, blasts cannonba
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
Terry Pratchett · 360 pages
"A collection of essays and other nonfiction spanning Terry Pratchett's entire career, from his early years to the present day. A collection of essays and other nonfiction spanning Terry Pratchett's entire career, from his early years to the present day"--
Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits
Celia Rivenbark · 276 pages
Whether shes doing her taxes or extolling the virtues of Madonnas mothering skills, Celia Rivenbark will keep you laughing until the very last page. Including - The joys of remodeling Tara How Harry Potter bitch-slaps Nancy Drew Britneys To-Do list: pick okra, cover that thang up How rugby-playing lesbians torpedoed beach day Why French women suck at competitive eating The truth about nature defic
The Funny Thing Is...
Ellen DeGeneres · 184 pages
Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point ... And I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collabora
Social Studies
Fran Lebowitz · 147 pages
The author is by turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, and wisecracking.
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
John Scalzi · 368 pages
Further Under the Duvet
Marian Keyes · 416 pages
Slide Further Under the Duvet, get yourself comfortable and let Marian take you places you've never been before ...Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and Toblerones. An