Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: 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.
Humorists
Author: Paul Johnson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Life in the nineteenth century. The postman's knock. The twenty-thousand-pound widow. To Brighton and back again. On some clubs, and their ends. Through the parks. Some Scotswomen. The Dibdins. Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton. Edward Wortley Montagu. Royal and imperial jokers
Author: Dr. Doran (John)
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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At Wit's End
Author: Erma Bombeck
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 030777824X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd let me wake up in my own way. Why do they have to line up along my bed and stare at me like Moby Dick just washed up onto a beach somewhere?"
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 030777824X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd let me wake up in my own way. Why do they have to line up along my bed and stare at me like Moby Dick just washed up onto a beach somewhere?"
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury: Index
Author: Walter Farquhar Hook
Publisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Story of the Life of Pius the Ninth
Author: Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes
Author: Brooklyn Public Library
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Quarterly review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Catalogue of the Minneapolis Public Library
Author: Minneapolis Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
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East of the Jordan
Author: Selah Merrill
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Category : Eretz Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Eretz Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury: (New series, v.1-6). Reformation period
Author: Walter Farquhar Hook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description