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Author : Jon Winokur
Release : 1987
Genre : American wit and humor
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Portable Curmudgeon Redux by : Jon Winokur
Download or read book The Portable Curmudgeon Redux written by Jon Winokur. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Release : 1992-10-01
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 688/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Portable Curmudgeon by : Various
Download or read book The Portable Curmudgeon written by Various. This book was released on 1992-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1,000 outrageously irreverent quotations, anecdotes, and interviews on a vast array of subjects, from an illustrious list of world class grouches. “If you can’t say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.”—Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Author : Various
Release : 1995
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Return of the Portable Curmudgeon by : Various
Download or read book Return of the Portable Curmudgeon written by Various. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When turning the other cheek just won't do, try fighting back with the cantankerous remarks of some of the crustiest, grouchiest, and cleverest curmudgeons of all time. Profiles of three world-class wordsmiths--Alexander Woollcott, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Benchley--plus interviews with a variety of caustic commentators make this a collection of barbed remarks second to none.
Author : Nancy Henley
Release : 2000
Genre : Humor
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Book Rating : 070/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Curmudgeon Woman by : Nancy Henley
Download or read book The Curmudgeon Woman written by Nancy Henley. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curmudgeons have for ages spiked life and literature with barbs and arrows, which are never so sharp as when shot from a woman's sling. From Shakespeare's Shrew to television's Maude, they've added pepper to the often bland stew of human conversation. Organized into 50 broad categories, The Curmudgeon Woman is a collection of 500 quotations from more than 300 razor-witted females. Covering a period from the 1600s to the present, they share their needle-sharp points of view on such engaging topics as aging, happiness, sex, marriage, inequality, fashion, life, and death. Not just funny, not just nasty, The Curmudgeon Woman combines sharp wit with deep truths. With contributions ranging from Minna Antrim (Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.) to Natalie Wood (The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby.), The Curmudgeon Woman displays a wry sense of humor and more wisdom than ought to be allowed.
Author : Jon Winokur
Release : 2010-04-28
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 155/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Advice to Writers by : Jon Winokur
Download or read book Advice to Writers written by Jon Winokur. This book was released on 2010-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Advice to Writers, Jon Winokur, author of the bestselling The Portable Curmudgeon, gathers the counsel of more than four hundred celebrated authors in a treasury on the world of writing. Here are literary lions on everything from the passive voice to promotion and publicity: James Baldwin on the practiced illusion of effortless prose, Isaac Asimov on the despotic tendencies of editors, John Cheever on the perils of drink, Ivan Turgenev on matrimony and the Muse. Here, too, are the secrets behind the sleight-of-hand practiced by artists from Aristotle to Rita Mae Brown. Sagacious, inspiring, and entertaining, Advice to Writers is an essential volume for the writer in every reader.
