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Sixty Years of American Humor; the Best of American Humor From Mark Twain to Benchley, a Prose Anthology

Author : Joseph Lewis 1858-1936 French
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013981906
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Sixty Years of American Humor; the Best of American Humor From Mark Twain to Benchley, a Prose Anthology written by Joseph Lewis 1858-1936 French and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Fierce Pajamas

Author : David Remnick
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375761276
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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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.”

Charles M. Russell

Author : Raphael James Cristy
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826332851
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Charles M. Russell written by Raphael James Cristy and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well known for his sketches, paintings, and sculptures of the Old West, Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) was also an accomplished author in the humorous genre known as "local color." Raphael Cristy sorts Russell's writings into four general categories: serious Indian stories, men encountering wildlife, cattle range characters, and nineteenth-century westerners facing twentieth-century challenges. Russell's art is often misinterpreted as mere longing for a fading open-range west, but his writings tell a different story. Cristy shows how Russell amused his peers with stories that also delivered sharp observations of Euro-American suppression of Indians and humorous treatment of wilderness and range issues plus the emergence of women and urbanization as bewildering agents of change in the modern West. "A welcome departure from the usual biographies and coffee table volumes on Russell and his art. . . . [Cristy] deals with an important, yet relatively unexplored, aspect of the career of one of the most influential interpreters of the American West."--Byron Price, Director, C. M. Russell Center for the Study of Art

Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955

Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616108
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955 written by Bernard A. Drew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham's Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, "I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them." The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day. The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington (Herman and Verman in the Penrod books), Irvin S. Cobb (Judge Priest's houseman Jeff Poindexter), Roark Bradford (Widow Duck, the plantation matriarch), Hugh Wiley (Wildcat Marsden, the war veteran who traveled the country in the company of his goat) and Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden (radio's Amos 'n' Andy). These writers deservedly declined in the civil rights era, but left a curious legacy that deserves examination. This book, focusing on authors of series fiction and particularly of humorous stories, profiles 29 writers and their black characters in detail, with brief entries covering 72 others.

Adult Subject Catalog

Author : Orange County Public Library (Calif.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Adult Subject Catalog written by Orange County Public Library (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best of Robert Benchley

Author : Robert Benchley
Publisher : Wings
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Robert Benchley written by Robert Benchley and published by Wings. This book was released on 1983 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Dorothy Parker's Round Table to the Democratic Convention, 72 timeless pieces present us with this author's unique and witty take on life's annoyances. Great and unorthodox social commentary, heavy on the humor. More than 100 humorous b&w line drawings.

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Primer of Humor Research

Author : Victor Raskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110198495
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Primer of Humor Research written by Victor Raskin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

Collier's Encyclopedia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Collier's Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise and Fall of American Humor

Author : Jesse Bier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of American Humor written by Jesse Bier and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kinds of American Film Comedy

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476688990
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Kinds of American Film Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking film study begins with a survey of American print humorists from eras leading up to and overlapping the advent of film--including some who worked both on the page and on the screen, like Robert Benchley, Will Rogers, Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields. Six comic film genres are identified as outgrowths of a national tradition of Cracker Barrel philosophers, personality comedy, parody, screwball comedy, romantic comedy and dark comedy. Whether it is Mark Twain or a parody film involving Steve Martin, comedy is most often about blowing "raspberries" at the world, and a reminder you are not alone.

Catalog of the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humor (SCOWAH)

Author : San Francisco Public Library. Schmulowitz Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Catalog of the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humor (SCOWAH) written by San Francisco Public Library. Schmulowitz Collection and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collier's Encyclopedia

Author : Frank Webster Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Collier's Encyclopedia written by Frank Webster Price and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalog of Reprints in Series

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Reprints in Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collier's Encyclopedia, with Bibliography and Index

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Collier's Encyclopedia, with Bibliography and Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Attempting Normal

Author : Marc Maron
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 067964413X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Attempting Normal written by Marc Maron and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER People make a mess. Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a divorce from a woman he thought he loved. He tried to heal his broken heart through whatever means he could find—minor-league hoarding, Viagra addiction, accidental racial profiling, cat fancying, flying airplanes with his mind—but nothing seemed to work. It was only when he was stripped down to nothing that he found his way back. Attempting Normal is Marc Maron’s journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories that add up to a moving tale of hope and hopelessness, of failing, flailing, and finding a way. From standup to television to his outrageously popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, Marc has always been a genuine original, a disarmingly honest, intensely smart, brutally open comic who finds wisdom in the strangest places. This is his story of the winding, potholed road from madness and obsession and failure to something like normal, the thrillingly comic journey of a sympathetic f***up who’s trying really hard to do better without making a bigger mess. Most of us will relate. Praise for Attempting Normal “I laughed so hard reading this book.”—David Sedaris “Funny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.”—Los Angeles Times “Superb . . . A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genre—the comedian memoir—is Mr. Maron’s hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.”—The New York Times “Marc Maron is a legend because he is both a great comic and a brilliant mind. Attempting Normal is a deep, hilarious megashot of feeling and truth as only this man can administer.”—Sam Lipsyte Praise for Marc Maron and WTF “The stuff of comedy legend.”—Rolling Stone “Marc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.”—Louis C.K. “I’ve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that he’s passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.”—David Cross “Revered among his peers . . . raw and unflinchingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly “Devastatingly funny.”—Los Angeles Times “For a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.”—Judd Apatow

Ellis Parker Butler on the Fine Art of Writing Humor

Author : Ellis Parker Butler
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434458849
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Parker Butler on the Fine Art of Writing Humor written by Ellis Parker Butler and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was the author of more than 2,000 stories and essays, as well as 30 books. He remains most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs," in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating geometrically. This collection reveals his thoughts on writing humor, including "Ten Rules for Humor" and "How I Sell My Stories."