- Hardcover: 1197 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Txt); 1st edition (April 5 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0192141066
- ISBN-13: 978-0192141064
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.8 x 5.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #681,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
The last piece of subtitle data tells what this hefty book is all about. It is neither a reference book of the "treasury" or "thesaurus" type nor a true anthology. It is, rather, a leisurely stroll through various humorists of various nationalities writing in English: the standard (Dickens, Twain), the expected (Dorothy Parker, Benchley, Shaw), the unexpected (Walter Scott!; George Eliot!), the well-known (Waugh, Leacock, Amis), the unknown (Johnson I. Hooper?; Barry Crump?), the classic (Sterne, Samuel Johnson), and the modern (Erma Bombeck, Garrison Keillor). Selections are generally very short, with bridges, often fairly humorous of themselves, by Muir. The humor ranges from the broad to the subtle and, in fact, in any other way that humor might range; there's something in here for everyone. Buy for browsers.
- Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Frank Muir is one of Britain's best-loved humorists. Here he provides not only a painfully funny collection, but also generous introductions to each writer, which are comic gems in themselves. Except for the occasional puritan, this is a book everyone will enjoy.
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An Eye-Opening Survey Of English-Language Humor, April 8 1998
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This review is from: The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose from William Caxton to P.G.Wodehouse: A Conducted Tour (Hardcover)
An astonishing tour of 400 years of laughs from the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. Not just the greats like Wodehouse, Twain, and Garrison Keillor but brilliant (but now forgotten) writers, plus cult favorites like Auberon Waugh, Stella Gibbons and P.J. O'Rourke. Highly recommended.
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