comedy

Pigs Have Wings

Novel by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared as a serial in Collier’s Weekly between 16 August and 20 September 1952. It was first published as a book in the United States on 16 October 1952 by Doubleday & Company, New York, and in the United Kingdom on 31 October 1952 by Herbert Jenkins, London

Slaughterhouse-Five

Science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1969. It follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II, to the post-war years, with Billy occasionally traveling through time

A Confederacy of Dunces

Picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole’s suicide

I Capture the Castle

First novel by the English author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley had moved to California

The Tempest

Play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 16101611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone

Lolita

1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov

The Cyberiad

Series of humorous science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisaw Lem, originally published in 1965, with an English translation appearing in 1974. The main protagonists of the series are Trurl and Klapaucius, the “constructors”.
The vast majority of characters are either robots or intelligent machines