The Caxtons
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 526
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Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
Published: 1860
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raoul Lefèvre
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Rhodes
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frank Muir
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1162
ISBN-13: 9780192803795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: William Kuskin
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection, the first such work on Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books.
Author: William Caxton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-08-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 3385545595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author: Rutherford George Montgomery
Publisher: Caxton Press
Published: 2001-03-20
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780870044175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar back in the wildest of the mountain country hides Yellow Eyes, the great mountain lion. Beautiful and cruel, like all big cats, Yellow Eyes and his mate, are tawny shadows lurking in the forest. In Rutherford Montgomery's stories animals are animals, not beasts playing the parts of human beings.
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton
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Published: 1874
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Kuskin
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 422
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this fascinating read, William Kuskin argues that the development of print production is part of a larger social network involving the political, economic, and literary systems that produce the intangible constellations of identity and authority.
Author: Joseph Jacobs
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 344
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