Humorists : From Hogarth to Noel Coward Paperback - 2011
by Johnson, Paul
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Details
- Title Humorists : From Hogarth to Noel Coward
- Author Johnson, Paul
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2011-11-29
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9223417-6
- ISBN 9780061825927 / 0061825921
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Humorists, Wit and humor - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010006806
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the rear cover
In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In Creators, he examined a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. And in Heroes, he brought together a galaxy of commanding figures from the annals of Western history. Now Johnson turns his impressive intellect and piercing insight to the finest wits of the Western world.
Humorists features fascinating and insightful biographical portraits of the greatest wits in history--a diverse cast of legendary funnymen who got a grand kick out of life. Johnson's selective survey includes Benjamin Franklin and the Marx Brothers, Charles Dickens and Damon Runyon, W. C. Fields and Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and James Thurber, and features their darkest humor, broadest satire, bawdiest wit, most biting sarcasm, and more. An entertaining and erudite collection, Humorists showcases some of our sharpest minds reflecting on the human condition--its follies, pretensions, and foibles--with that greatest of all gifts: humor.
