Etiqueta: humor
The Otises are a practical American family. They don't believe in “The Canterville Ghost”. They don't believe in ghosts ... until they move to Canterville Chase, an old English country estate inhabited by the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville. The family is amused by Sir Simon's failed attempts...
The Otises are a practical American family. They don't believe in “The Canterville Ghost”. They don't believe in ghosts ... until they move to Canterville Chase, an old English country estate inhabited by the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville. The family is amused by Sir Simon's failed attempts...
The action of “Much Ado About Nothing” occurs during several days of a visit by Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, and his followers at the large estate of Leonato, Governor of Messina. Don Pedro has been victorious in a small war against his own half-brother, Don John, who has...
Presents eleven of the English writer's works including the title story featuring a three hundred-year-old ghost who fails to intimidate the newest occupants of his manor house.
It was the custom for lads to gather at the street corner on summer evenings and discuss trolleying. Spit Nolan was the champion trolley-rider. He had very good balance, sharp wits and he was very brave.
The dramatic story of Spit Nolan is one of thirteen in this collection of...
The Otises are a practical American family. They don't believe in “The Canterville Ghost”. They don't believe in ghosts ... until they move to Canterville Chase, an old English country estate inhabited by the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville. The family is amused by Sir Simon's failed attempts...
Reconocido unánimemente como fundador de la novela autóctona norteamericana, sobre todo a través de esas dos obras maestras que son "Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer" y "Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn", la vida y las numerosas actividades de Mark Twain (1835-1910) se solaparon en gran medida con los años...
«Escribir desde la fe significa -al menos así lo veo yo- hacerse un poco mas abierto; reservar el apasionamiento y la gravedad para unas pocas y señaladas cuestiones, y sonreír ante las demás. Significa, por tanto, escribir con buen humor -que está al alcance de todos (lo del sentido...
En "Herejes", G. K. Chesterton dibuja una personalísima crítica a las opiniones religiosas de nuestro tiempo. Dirigido al sentido común del hombre común, singular no tanto por la estricta originalidad de sus ideas, sino por su particular punto de vista, este libro de Chesterton nos conduce, con una curiosa...
En esta colección de artículos publicados en el periódico inglés Daily News entre 1908 y 1910, Chesterton—el maestro de la paradoja y de la digresión—se desliza con fluidez de lo cómico a lo reflexivo a través de sus observaciones sobre los temas más diversos: la poca atención que los...
