Author: Thomas ShadwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Humorists, a comedy in five acts and in prose , etc
Author: Thomas ShadwellW. Irving's Works: Crayon, G. Bracebridge hall; or, The humorists, a medley. Abbotsford, and Newstead Abbey
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Bracebridge Hall - The Humorists, A Medley (Illustrated): Satirical Novel from the Author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, A History of New York, Tales of the Alhambra and many more
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026839501
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, while he lived in England. This episodic novel is actually a location-based series of character sketches and short stories and it was originally published under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. The tales revolve around the occupants of an English manor, which was occupied by members of the Bracebridge family and which Irving visited.
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.
101 Damnations
Author: Michael J. RosenPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429979917
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Dear flappable reader: Do you bristle at a handshake that resembles a limp fish? Do oblivious pedestrians bring you to the brink? What about museum gift shops, superfluous courtesy (do we need a gas pump to show us gratitude?), behemoth SUVS, or inexplicable operating manuals? Have you had it with screeching leaf blowers, beseeching telemarketers, escalating movie-ticket prices, or proliferating celebrity magazines? Is it children's choirs or karaoke singers, waiters bearing pepper grinders or dinner guests blathering on about salt, that drives you to distraction? For anyone who has recognized that this peaceful kingdom of ours has more than a few potholes, 101 Damnations is the perfect companion. It's your ticket to the nine circles of personal hell. Armed with wit, bewilderment, and words to the wise ass, today's leading humorists conduct a brief tour of the trivial and often universal exasperations we all must endure. Among the damning, Henry Alford reveals our wanton desire to affect Britishisms. Sandra Tsing Loh has it in for people who forward "funny" e-mails. Once and for all, Merrill Markoe sets forth cell phone etiquette. And there are many, many others. Ninety-eight to be exact. Make yourself comfortable. Misery loves company.
The Humorists
Author: Thomas ShadwellBracebridge Hall, or the humorists
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astoria (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Bracebridge hall; or, The humorists, by Geoffrey Crayon
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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Author: Geoffrey Crayon