Ergebnis für "Cheers" in Literatur & Belletristik

With his disturbingly horse-like face and a pious distaste for strong drink and bad language, young Bartholomew Bandy doesn't seem cut out for life in the armed services, as we meet him at the start of World War I. Yet he not only survives the dangers and squalor of the infantry trenches, he positively thrives in the Royal Flying Corps, revealing a surprising aptitude for splitarsing Sopwith Camels and shooting down the Hun. He even manages to get the girl.

The inimitable - some might say incorrigible - Frank Widdicombe is suffering from a deep depression. Or so his wife, Carol, believes. But Carol is convinced that their new island home - Willowbrook Manor on the Puget Sound - is just the thing to cheer her husband up. And so begins a whirlwind summer as their house becomes the epicenter of multiple social dramas involving the family, their friends, and a host of new acquaintances.

La endiablada capacidad de crear conflictos de Wilt, llega en esta novela a sus más altas cotas de peligrosidad. En los lavabos del Politécnico donde es profesor aparece muerta por sobredosis la hija de un distinguido lord británico. Una inmejorable oportunidad para que el amargado inspector Flint reavive sus ansias de venganza, tras su fracaso en el caso de la muñeca hinchable. Entretanto, Wilt atraviesa una difícil situación financiera: sus repulsivas cuatrillizas acuden a una costosa escuela especial para niños superdotados, por lo cual se ve obligado a hacer horas extras.

Throbbing Morton is a village in the English Cotswolds. Though there has been human habitation on the site for well over a thousand years, there is no record of it in the Domesday Book, and you will find it on no map today. Perhaps it is the boggy fields or the high hedges that have kept it out of public view. It might also have been the great fungal toenail epidemic of 1438 that kept the rest of the world at bay; no one knows for sure. The outcome of all this is that it has bred colorful characters of great distinction.

Russian Optimism: Dark Nursery Rhymes to Cheer You Right Up is an audiobook of thirty of Russia's most horrifically hysterical nursery rhymes translated for an English-speaking audience. Each rhyme is two to four lines, with an innocent title and a horrible ending.