7 best short stories by Barry Pain

Barry Pain, August Nemo

Summary

Barry Pain, english journalist, poet and writer. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories, but he also wrote many horror stories, which were well received by the lay men and critics alike. Best remembered for his Eliza group of comedic short stories.

The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment:

- Aunt Martha.
- The Bet.
- The Boy in the Book.
- The Discovery of Nesting.
- Eliza and the Special.
- The Kindness of the Celestial.
- The Victim of Apparatus.

Available since: 05/16/2020.

Other books that might interest you

Old Time Radio: Golden Age of...

Various Various

2 comedy classics in 1 amazing bundle! Experience some of the most hilarious radio serials to release in the twentieth century in this incredible bundle! My Favorite Husband: Liz's Mother Has Second Thoughts My Favorite Husband: Literary Club's Speaker Came to Dinner My Favorite Husband: Liz and The General My Favorite Husband: Is There A Baby in the House My Favorite Husband: Liz Has Her Fortune Told My Favorite Husband: The Elves My Favorite Husband: Baseball My Favorite Husband: Mrs. Cooper Thinks Liz is Pregnant My Favorite Husband: Is There Another Woman My Favorite Husband: Liz Becomes a Sculptress Our Miss Brooks: Babysitting for Three Our Miss Brooks: Grudge Match Our Miss Brooks: Student Banking Our Miss Brooks: Poetry Mix-Up Our Miss Brooks: Key to School Our Miss Brooks: Photo Mix Up Our Miss Brooks: Working in the Stockroom Our Miss Brooks: Taxidermy Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Boyington's Parents Our Miss Brooks: Wishing Well School Dance

Show book

Go Ask Ali - Half-Baked Advice...

Ali Wentworth

New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers her hilarious and unique advice on surviving the absurdity of modern life in her third collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.
Ali Wentworth's first two books, Ali in Wonderland and Happily Ali After, were lauded by readers, critics, and fellow comedians alike. Entertainment Weekly included Happily Ali After on its "Must List" and hailed it as "hilarious. . . . Her glass isn't half full—it's "empty and cracked," while Cosmopolitan praised it as "razor-sharp." Chelsea Handler called Ali in Wonderland "truly hilarious," and Kathy Griffin christened it, "Chicken Soup for the Vagina." Alec Baldwin has described Ali as "funny and warm and crazy all at once. Like Barbara Eden. But on something. Like crystal meth," and Jerry Seinfeld has raved, "Everything that comes out of Ali Wentworth's mouth is funny!"
At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and far-fetched, this third collection offers Ali at her wisest and wittiest as she delivers tips, pointers, and quips on a host of life's conundrums and sticky situations, including the funny, sometimes embarrassing yet unforgettable situations that have shaped her inimitable world view as a wife, mother, actress, comedian, and all around bon vivant. Thoroughly entertaining, Go Ask Ali is packed with thoughts and musings from "the girlfriend you want to have a glass of wine with, the one who makes you laugh because she sees the funny and the absurd in everything" (Huffington Post).

Show book

Three Sisters The (Librovox)

May Sinclair

Fascinated as she was by the lives of the Brontë siblings, May Sinclair loosely based her subtly sensual, quietly insurrectionary 1914 novel The Three Sisters on the Haworth moor milieu of the three literary Brontë sisters. Alice, Gwenda, and Mary Cartaret are the daughters of the Vicar of Garth, an abusive father with rigid, selfish expectations for female behavior. Hope of rescue seems to dawn in the person of an idealistic young doctor in the village, but this is no Austen romance. Described with Edwardian restraint, it is still sexual passion that is the underlying theme of the story: the rebellion of human sensuality in almost every major character in the story against the artificial constraints of conventional Society and Religion. Sinclair, herself a fascinating hybrid of Victorian and modern, shows the desperate, inertial ennui inherent in the lives of unmarried late-Victorian women dependent on their male guardians but fired by dreams and desires of their own. Sinclair's gently seditious fiction is always deeply imbued with philosophy as well as human psychology, giving it rich layers of interest. - Summary by Expatriate

Show book

Attack of the spider woman - an...

Maik Mueller

In this short history it comes to pass that there is a cruel fight between me and a suddenly appearing monster. It happened to me on our country estate in the "old marks" (a remote area in the east of Europe). If you are interested in this fight and the inevitable end, you should read this short history.

Show book

Principles of Economics Book 5:...

Alfred Marshall

Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it.His plan for the work gradually extended to a two-volume compilation on the whole of economic thought; the first volume was published in 1890 to worldwide acclaim that established him as one of the leading economists of his time. It brought the ideas of supply and demand, of marginal utility and of the costs of production into a coherent whole, and became the dominant economic textbook in England for a long period. The second volume, which was to address foreign trade, money, trade fluctuations, taxation, and collectivism, was never published at all. (Summary from Wikipedia)This reading is based on the eighth edition, published in 1920.

Show book

Fartman

Barakath

Fartman, a conversational story with humour.

Show book