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At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. ![]() Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. ![]() Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Me Talk Pretty One Day, published in 2000, is a bestselling collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris. Whether Sedaris is writing about an awkward situation at a party or the distorted perceptions people have about other. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. David Sedaris ’s Me Talk Pretty One Day is a collection of anecdotal essays, most of which have the same simple goal: to provide humorous commentary about everyday life and human behavior. 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The humor popped up effortlessly and enjoyably and wrapped into lessons such as, Yet I haven't felt this much emotion in closing a book in such a long time! 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Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid."The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Bound in cloth boards with titles present. SIGNED gift inscription on first page.DJ has shelf-wear, rough edges, torn top back. DESCRIPTION:WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER FOR SALE THIS BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR LIBRARY.A Great Gift for Christmas !!!Hardcover. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The idiot fyodor dostoyevsky![]() ![]() And what a money-hungry, power-hungry, cold and manipulative society it is. Where Crime and Punishment deals with Raskolnikov’s internal struggle, The Idiot deals with Prince Myshkin’s effect on the society he finds himself a part of. The only other Dostoevsky novel I’ve read was Crime and Punishment, so of course my brain is going to compare the two. ![]() ![]() Of course the prince gets caught up with Rogozhin, Filippovna, and the society around them. Rogozhin is unhealthily obsessed with the mysterious beauty, Nastasya Filippovna to the point where the reader just knows nothing good will come of it. While on the train to Russia, he meets and befriends a man of dubious character called Rogozhin. The Idiot portrays young, childlike Prince Myshkin, who returns to his native Russia to seek out distant relatives after he has spent several years in a Swiss sanatorium. I’m struggling with something: How do I review a Russian literature classic? Better yet, how do I review a Russian literature classic without sounding like a total dumbass? 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