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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A Pocket Book of Early American Humorists
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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Humorists
Author: Paul JohnsonPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062024868
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“It is Johnson’s gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would…recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes.” —Washington Post Book World on Heroes “Johnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough.” —Wall Street Journal Paul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller Intellectuals, returns with a captivating collection of biographical portraits of the Western world’s greatest wits and humorists. With chapters dedicated to history’s sharpest tongues and most piercing pens, including Benjamin Franklin, Toulouse-Lautrec, G.K. Chesterton, Damon Runyan, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and many more, Johnson’s Humorists is an exciting compendium of our most enduring comical and satirical innovators.
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
The United States Catalog
Author: The Monthly Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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Alias Simon Suggs
Author: William Stanley HoolePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817353623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Annotation "When these words were written everybodyhadread or heard of Simon Suggs, the shifty man whose antics had been recorded in many a gusty tale of Alabama frontier life which had drawn laughter and applause from newspaper readers throughout the United States. And everybody, at least in Alabama in the 1850s, knew something about his creator, Johnson Jones Hooper. . . . The immortal Suggs, his alter ego, has kept his name alive and renewed its luster, in a biography that deserves almost unqualified praise. Dr. Hoole'sAlias Simon Suggsis a noteworthy achievement. . . . A milestone in contemporary Alabama scholarship, it will become a standard reference work on the literary and political scene [and] as a distinguished piece of biographical writing, skillfully organized and deftly presented."--AlabamaReview
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem
Author: Kliph NesteroffPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982103051
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"From renowned comedy journalist and historian Kliph Nesteroff comes the underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy"--
The Bookman
Author: The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description