The Oxford book of humorous prose : from William Caxton to P. G. Wodehouse : a conducted tour
Muir , Frank1990
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Starting with Caxton in 1477 Frank Muir shows how humorous writing has developed and been refined through five centuries by such practitioners and innovators as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, and also how humour ranges from the crude to the subtle.
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Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Collation:
xxxiv,1162p. ; 25cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780192141064
Dewey class:
827.008
Language:
English
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BRN:
26927
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