Humorists : from Hogarth to Noël Coward
(2010)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2010
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780062024862 MWT15395738, 0062024868 15395738
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Paul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller Intellectuals, returns with a captivating collection of biographical portraits of the Western world's greatest wits and humorists. With chapters dedicated to history's sharpest tongues and most piercing pens, including Benjamin Franklin, Toulouse-Lautrec, G.K. Chesterton, Damon Runyan, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and many more, Johnson's Humorists is an exciting compendium of our most enduring comical and satirical innovators
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