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    Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 387min
    Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) may be considered the Canadian counterpart to Mark Twain. For many years he was professor of economics at Magill University and published a number of well-regarded texts on economics and political science. However, he is best known today for his many volumes of humorous fiction. During the 1920s he was one of the most widely read authors in the English-speaking world and was considered by Jack Benny and Groucho Marx to be one of the greatest comic writers of all time. In Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, Leacock applies a satirical scalpel to the foibles and pretensions of the wealthy and the powerful. He not only probes the quirks of traditional power structures like corporations (public and private), political parties, universities, and churches but also finds time to poke fun at one of his favorite targets - the world of psychic phenomena. A Little Dinner with Mr Lucullus Fyshe The Wizard of Finance The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph The Ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing The Great Fight for Clean Government Narrated by Cate Barratt. Cast: Lucullus Fyshe - Jeff Moon; Dr Boomer - Ron Altman; Fareforth Furlong - Richard Andrews; Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown - Lee Ann Howlett. Additional voices supplied by Bob Neufeld, Ben Stevens, P. J. Morgan, Brett Downey, Denis Daly, Andy Harrington, David Prickett, John Burlinson, Alan Weyman, Joseph Tabler, Susan Iannucci, Becca Maggie, Jennifer Fournier, Ted Wenskus, Leanne Yau, Arielle Lipshaw, and Marty Kris. Audio edited by Denis Daly. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cate Barratt, Jeff Moon, Ron Altman, Richard Andrews, David Prickett, John Burlinson, Lee Ann Howlett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001687/bk_mike_001687_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What's So Funny?
    What's So Funny? ab 9.99 € als epub eBook: Lessons from Canada's Leacock Medal for Humour Writing. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,
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    Pitch Black , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 399min
    Arthur Black - beloved radio personality, newspaper columnist, best-selling author and two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour - shows no symptoms of a weary funny bone with his latest offering Pitch Black. Pitch Black delivers hilarious insights on the medical application of duct tape, the real difference between men and women, how to reuse that Commodore 64 in the closet, and why writers dread cocktail parties and barbeques ("A stranger asks you what you do; you tell them you're a writer. And they come back with 'No, I meant what do you do for a LIVING'").At least one writer need not fear the hors d'oeuvres table - Pitch Black proves that Arthur Black is master of his craft. Laughs are guaranteed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010546/bk_adbl_010546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Board Game Design Advice: From the Best in the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min
    Take your games to the next level with advice from more than 60 of the best board game designers in the world. Game design is hard. We all need sound advice to guide our work and help us become better at the craft. In this book you'll find incredible wisdom and insight from the top designers in the industry today. You will learn:  The advice Rob Daviau would give his younger self.How Matt Leacock gets into the zone and flow of design.Lessons Jamey Stegmaier learned from his biggest failure.Donald X. Vaccarino's advice on pitching a game to a publisher.The behavior that has helped Ryan Laukat's designs dramatically improve. What Bruno Cathala would tell you after a discouraging playtest.And much more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Naranjo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/122818/bk_acx0_122818_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dance, Gladys, Dance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 629min
    Winner of the 2013 Leacock Memorial Medal for Canadian Humour Writing! Long-listed for Canadar Reads 2018! Twenty-seven-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter; in front of her lies the dreary task of finding a real job and figuring out what “normal” people do with their lives. Then, a classified ad in the local paper introduces Frieda to Gladys, an elderly woman who long ago gave up on her dreams of being a dancer. The catch? Gladys is a ghost. In Dance, Gladys, Dance, Cassie Stocks tells the uplifting story of a woman whose uncanny connection with a kindred spirit causes her to see her life in a new way - as anything but ordinary. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marysia Bucholc. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ecwp/000533/bk_ecwp_000533_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Doll's House , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 155min
    A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp Presented by The Online Stage A Doll's House, published in 1879, was the earliest of Ibsen's "social dramas", and the first of his works to attract attention outside of Scandinavia. The central theme of the play is a woman's right to individual self-development, and represents, as humourist Stephen Leacock observed of many Ibsen plays, "a profound problem stated but not solved".   Cast Amanda Friday as Nora Rob Goll as Torvald Helmer Denis Daly as Dr. Rank Elizabeth Klett as Mrs Christine Linde Jeff Moon as Nils Krogstad Danielle Cohen as Anne Noel Badrian as the Porter and the Servant Leanne Yau as the Housemaid Children played by Miranda Hodges and Leanne Yau Stage directions read by Craig Franklin Audio edited by Denis Daly ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amanda Friday, Rob Goll, Denis Daly, Elizabeth Klett, Jeff Moon, Danielle Cohen, Craig Franklin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002698/bk_mike_002698_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Flash Black , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
    The author of Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle Again, both winners of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor, returns with a new collection guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and make you scratch your head at the absurdities of life in the early years of the new millennium. In slyly ironic, pointedly witty essays, Black takes aim at the vagaries of the English language, the moribund political correctness movement, and a host of rural and urban eccentrics. In fact, there's not much that Black won't write about, be it the banality of bumper stickers, the ingenuity of crows, or such everyday subjects as outhouses, hammocks and blue jeans. So sit down, settle back and loosen your belt to leave room for a belly laugh or three. Flash Black is witty, weird, one hundred percent Canadian and guaranteed to delight. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Foley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010547/bk_adbl_010547_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Martyr Of The Pongas
    The Martyr Of The Pongas ab 50.99 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Being A Memoir Of The Reverend Hamble James Leacock Leader Of The West Indian Mission To Western Africa (1857). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,
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    Black Gold , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min
    The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour is Canada's top award for humour - and nobody has won it more times than Arthur Black, who carried off his third medal in June 2006. Now, in case there is anyone left standing who still disputes Black's claim to the title of Canada's funniest man, Harbour presents the laughing proof: a retrospective of Black's best hits, high-graded from eleven previous collections stretching back over the past 20 years. The result is a landslide of laughter, a pageant of puns, a tsunami of silliness, a cornucopia of corn, in short, a bonanza of Black humour. From pointers on the medical application of duct tape to uses for that ancient Commodore 64 stashed in the closet to people who seek immortality by naming bugs after themselves to plans for a combination gambling and fitness machine so you can lose pounds as you lose money, Black holds nothing back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pete Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010549/bk_adbl_010549_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Great Humorous Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1220min
    A superb anthology of 40 great classic humorous stories. 'A Skinful of Trouble' by Arthur Morrison 'Bats in the Belfry' by Harry Graham 'Mr. Pappas' by A. J. Alan 'The Brazen Serpent' by R. Austin Freeman 'The Man who fell in Love with the Cooperative Stores' by Stella Benson 'The Rival Beauties' by W. W. Jacobs 'The Overcrowded Iceberg' by Morley Roberts 'A Keen Sense of Rumour' by Cosmo Hamilton 'More French than the French' by Christine Jope-Slade 'The Penance' by Saki 'The House of Haddock' by Arthur Morrison 'The Lost Sanjak' by Saki 'The Abandonment of Miss Plum' by Dion Clayton Calthrop 'The Disorder of the Bath' by Arthur Morrison 'The Substitute' by W. W. Jacobs 'The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh' by Saki 'The Mad Hatter' by Morley Roberts 'Relics of General Chassé' by Anthony Trollope 'The Conjuror's Revenge' by Stephen Leacock 'The Robe of Peace' by O. Henry Plus 20 more amusing classic tales. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/001080/bk_redd_001080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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