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Author : E.B... White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (453 download)
Download or read book A Subtreasury of American Humor written by E.B... White and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elwyn Brooks White
Publisher : Cliffs Notes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Subtreasury of American Humor written by Elwyn Brooks White and published by Cliffs Notes. This book was released on 1962 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the most famous book of its kind, American humor is presented at its best and freshest. No effort was made by the editors to make this collection the most complete or the most historically representative collection of American humorous writing. The sole idea was to put together in one volume the funniest things that have ever been written in this country. -- From publisher's description.
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Publisher : Reader's Digest Press published in conjunction with McGraw Hill Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Reader's Digest Treasury of American Humor written by and published by Reader's Digest Press published in conjunction with McGraw Hill Book Company. This book was released on 1972 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brimming cornucopia of entertainment - arranged by topic to cover everything from marriage, home, office, generation gap, money, health, religion, politics, higher education, bureaucracy, hammered grammar, typographical errors, puns and put-downs.
Author : Gene Shalit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566191609
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Laughing Matters written by Gene Shalit and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here, to lift the spirits, is the most distinguished collection of American humor in half a century, and perhaps the most varied ever. Gene Shalit has selected nearly 200 entries from virtually every field of humor--written, drawn, and performed." --provided by Goodreads.
Author : David Remnick
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375761276
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Fierce Pajamas written by David Remnick and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2002-10-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Steve Martin, and Christopher Buckley. Fierce Pajamas is a treasury of laughter from the magazine W. H. Auden called the “best comic magazine in existence.”
Author : Michael Farquhar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142001929
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of Great American Scandals written by Michael Farquhar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of his national bestseller A Treasury of Royal Scandals, Michael Farquhar turns his attention to matters a little closer to home with A Treasury of Great American Scandals. From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too-human events. Ineffectual presidents, lazy generals, traitors; treacherous fathers, nagging mothers, ungrateful children, embarrassing siblings; and stories about insanity, death, and disturbing postmortems are all here, as are disagreeable marriages, vile habits, and, of course, sex: good sex, bad sex, and good-bad sex too. We can take comfort in the fact that we are no worse and no better than our forebears. But we do have better media coverage. Bonus educational material: A brief history of the United States, including scandals! The American Hall of Shame! A complete listing of presidential administrations!
Author : Lynn Johnston
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0740791397
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Something Old, Something New written by Lynn Johnston and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of cartoons from the strip's earliest collections, as well as entirely new cartoons, accompanied by the author's commentary and photographs from her own life.
Author : Amy L. Cohn
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590428682
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (286 download)
Download or read book From Sea to Shining Sea written by Amy L. Cohn and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of more than 120 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.
Author : Benjamin Albert Botkin
Publisher : BBS Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780883656167
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of American Anecdotes written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by BBS Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1982 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the origins and classification of anecdotes and explains the date, source, and meaning for over 400 traditional and popular anecdotes from around the country
Author : Bennett Cerf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor written by Bennett Cerf and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elwyn Brooks White
Publisher : Telegraph Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Subtreasury of American Humor written by Elwyn Brooks White and published by Telegraph Books. This book was released on 1948 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395572269
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor written by Isaac Asimov and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man.
Author : Oliver Gaspirtz
Publisher : Lincoln Herndon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780942936315
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of Police Humor written by Oliver Gaspirtz and published by Lincoln Herndon Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165815
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book No Joke written by Ruth R. Wisse and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience"--
Author : Westvaco Corporation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Treasury of American Humor written by Westvaco Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pi-ching Hsu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900429323X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs written by Pi-ching Hsu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treasury of Laughs is a treasure house for students of literature, psycholinguistics, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Feng Menglong systematically collected and edited 700-odd humourous skits that presented the entire spectrum of traditional Chinese jokes, and wrote commentaries of great philosophical insight. The anthology offers satirical caricatures of human follies from the cradle to the grave and reveals tension in all sectors of human societies and institutions. Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the complete Ming Chinese original with meticulous editorial work, in modern punctuated typesetting, and provides the only complete English translation available, with useful footnotes on word plays, literary allusions, and historical background. Readers should find the introductory essays on the connections between humour and emotions/states of mind particularly illuminating.
Author : Michael Krasny
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062422057
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Let There Be Laughter written by Michael Krasny and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the host of NPR affiliate’s Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture. Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he knows more of them than anyone on the planet. He certainly states his case in this wise, enlightening, and hilarious book that not only collects the best of Jewish humor passed down from generation to generation, but explains the cultural expressions and anxieties behind the laughs. "What’s Jewish Alzheimer’s?" "You forget everything but the grudges." "You must be so proud. Your daughter is the President of the United States!" "Yes. But her brother is a doctor!" "Isn’t Jewish humor masochistic?" "No. And if I hear that one more time I am going to kill myself." With his background as a scholar and public-radio host, Krasny delves deeply into the themes, topics, and form of Jewish humor: chauvinism undercut by irony and self-mockery, the fear of losing cultural identity through assimilation, the importance of vocal inflection in joke-telling, and calls to communal memory, including the use of Yiddish. Borrowing from traditional humor and such Jewish comedy legends as Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers, Larry David, Sarah Silverman, Jerry Seinfeld and Amy Schumer, Let There Be Laughter is an absolute pleasure for the chosen and goyim alike.
