Author: Ruskin Bond
Editor(s): Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 180
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129102013
Description
An anthology of hilarious stories, humorous articles, and comic verse. If you have been feeling bad, this book will make you feel good. And if you re already feeling good, you will feel even better!
‘Laugh and be well!’ exclaimed the great Dr. Johnson, and he never spoke truer worlds. For laughter is certainly good medicine, guaranteed to drive away the blues and improve your general well-being.
Ruskin Bond declares that he had great fun in putting together this anthology of hilarious stories, humorous articles, and comic verse. The reader will share his enjoyment. You will smile, chuckle, or laugh out loud, whether it is at an account of a crazy cricket match, or a cheese that smells to high heaven, or a goat that goes berserk in a posh drawing room.
Contents
Introduction
Cheese
Ong to Londing
A Question
The Conjurer’s Revenge
Llanfairpwllgwyngillgogerchwyrn-
Drobwellllandysilggogogoch
The Kidnapping of Major Mulvancy
Money
Cricket at Dingley Dell
Cricket-Field Placings
The Cricket Match
Major Canamus
George and Ranji
The Zigzag Walk
The Decline of Drama
Pause
Sigh No More, Ladies
Drunkards of Distinction
Company
Wimpole’s Woe
My Failed Omelettes – and Other Disasters
Song for a Beetle in a Goldfish Bowl
The Inn and the Dog
The Ghost Ship
About John
Henry King
Matilda
The Dinner-Party
The Faith Cure
A Comedy in Capricorn
Ping Pong & Ruskin Bond
The Music Man
In Praise of the Sausage
Last Tango in the Far Pavillions
Literacy Lapses
Verses : From the Sanskrit