The Complete Works of Artemus Ward
1862. With a biographical sketch by Melville D. Landon (Eli Perkins) and many humorous illustrations. Charles Farrar Browne, writing under the pen name of Artemus Ward, developed a satirical approach that poked fun at his straitlaced contemporaries. In his antebellum columns and letters in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he gained a reputation as a humorist and a debunker whose pun-ridden, misspelled and ungrammatical accounts made readers, including a war-burdened Abraham Lincoln, laugh. He also became a deadpan-comedian lecturer of renown. The Contents of this volume include: Essays, Sketches and Letters; War; Stories and Romances; To Californi…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4326-2360-9
- EAN: 9781432623609
- Produktnummer: 38029222
- Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 508 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.4 cm 970 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 970
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