The Oxford Book of Comic Verse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of Comic Verse write by John Gross. This book was released on 1994. The Oxford Book of Comic Verse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Draws on a wide range of verse forms such as epigrams, street ballads, classical poetry, Augustan satire, and advertising jingles.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry write by Matthew Bevis. This book was released on 2013-10. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry offers an authorative collection of original essays and is an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics.
The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose
The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose write by Frank Muir. This book was released on 2002. The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this magisterial collection, Frank Muir guides the reader on a journey of discovery and delight through five centuries of humorous prose in the English language.Starting in London with William Caxton and a Preface written and printed in 1477, and ending with P. G. Wodehouse whose last novel was published in 1977, the route is meandering: from England to Ireland and Scotland, back to England again, on to America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. There areexamples chosen from humorous fiction, letters, and journalism written by over 200 authors and ranging from medieval jests to the New Yorker and Beachcomber; from Thomas Nashe and Tom Brown's galloping bawdy to Jane Austen and on to Garrison Keillor and Arthur Marshall; from the jokes in SamuelJohnson's Dictionary to Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and his hangover. The great humorous writers such as Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and P. G. Wodehouse are given a kind of mini-anthology of their own so that the range and versatility of their work can be appreciated.The extracts are embedded in a commentary that sets the writers in their historical context with items of contemporary gossip and anecdotal biography.As tour leader of this enjoyable enterprise, there could be no one better than Frank Muir to entertain, inform, and above all amuse the reader in his own distinctive fashion.
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes write by John Gross. This book was released on 2008. The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
The Children's Book of Comic Verse
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