1000 years of laughter [eAudiobook - hoopla] : an anthology of classic comic prose

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1000 years of laughter an anthology of classic comic prose

(2002)

By: Timson, David

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Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED

[United States] : Naxos : Made available through hoopla, 2002

EDITION

Unabridged

DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (300 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN

9789629547028 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11104047, 9629547023 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11104047

LANGUAGE

English

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David Timson, Carole Boyd, Jonathan Keeble, John Moffatt, Cathy Sara

Laughter is unique to man. This delightful anthology presents some of the funniest extracts in English literature. David Timson starts with Anglo-Saxon riddles and continues with medieval memories, Tudor comic turns and Restoration buffoonery. The rise of the novel in the eighteenth century brought classic humour from Swift, Sterne and Smollet, passing the mantle to Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century. Included here are rarities as well, from the antiquarian's cupboard. There are also excerpts from children's literature and twentieth-century classics as diverse as Dorothy Parker and P. G. Wodehouse. Entertaining from start to finish

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