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Author : Clifton Fadiman
Release : 2009-10-31
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes by : Clifton Fadiman
Download or read book The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes written by Clifton Fadiman. This book was released on 2009-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.
Author : Andre Bernard
Release : 2000-09-21
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 268/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes by : Andre Bernard
Download or read book Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes written by Andre Bernard. This book was released on 2000-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.
Author : Clifton Fadiman
Release : 1991-01-01
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 053/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Little Brown Book of Anecdotes by : Clifton Fadiman
Download or read book Little Brown Book of Anecdotes written by Clifton Fadiman. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers brief anecdotes about more than two thousand people, from Muhammad Ali to Zeno, Ansel Adams to Frank Lloyd Wright, and Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde
Author : Kristin van Ogtrop
Release : 2021-04-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 487/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Did I Say That Out Loud? by : Kristin van Ogtrop
Download or read book Did I Say That Out Loud? written by Kristin van Ogtrop. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former editor-in-chief of Real Simple, enjoy this hilarious and deeply insightful take on the indignities of middle age and how to weather them with grace: "A pure pleasure to read" (Cathi Hanauer, author of Gone). Do you hate the term “middle age?” So does Kristin van Ogtrop, who is still trying to come up with a less annoying way to describe those years when you find yourself both satisfied and outraged, confident and confused, full of appreciation but occasional disdain for the world around you. Like an intimate chat with your best friend, this mostly funny, sometimes sad, always affirming volume from longtime magazine journalist van Ogtrop is a celebration of that period of life when mild humiliations are significantly outweighed by a self-actualized triumph of the spirit. Finally! Featuring stories from her own life, as well as anecdotes from her unwitting friends and family, van Ogtrop encourages you to laugh at the small irritations of midlife: neglectful children, stealth insomnia, forks that try to kill you, t.v. remotes that won’t find Netflix, abdominal muscles that can’t seem to get the job done. But also to acknowledge the things you may have lost: innocence, unbridled optimism, smooth skin. Dear friends. Parents. It’s all here: the sublime and the ridiculous, living together in the pages of this book as they do in your heart, like a big messy family, in this no-better-term-for-it middle age.
Author : John Gross
Release : 2008
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 410/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by : John Gross
Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes written by John Gross. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
