Dominique Enright
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The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen Tekijä: Dominique Enright
This was fun. The compiler draws a lot from the Juvenilia and letters, which is a different and sharper side to Austen than most of us think of. A fun and quick reference book!
Ah, who doesn't love [a:William Shakespeare|947|William Shakespeare|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1360741702p2/947.jpg]?
This concise book is a collection of well known quotations from his work, organized loosely by topic. The beginning features a nice biography of the author, although it does report some stories that are more likely inventions than truth. It does, however, quote some of the better [a:Ben Jonson|22583|Ben Jonson|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1221004641p2/22583.jpg] mentions of Shakespeare.
All in all this book, as previous reviewers have commented, is a bit too PG rated to be truly good fun. It is a good quick reference to various quotations, and a decent introduction to the life of the Bard.
All in all, quite fun, but a bit too whitewashed.… (lisätietoja)
This concise book is a collection of well known quotations from his work, organized loosely by topic. The beginning features a nice biography of the author, although it does report some stories that are more likely inventions than truth. It does, however, quote some of the better [a:Ben Jonson|22583|Ben Jonson|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1221004641p2/22583.jpg] mentions of Shakespeare.
All in all this book, as previous reviewers have commented, is a bit too PG rated to be truly good fun. It is a good quick reference to various quotations, and a decent introduction to the life of the Bard.
All in all, quite fun, but a bit too whitewashed.… (lisätietoja)
Pretty much every quote that you know of that's attributed to Churchill is in here. It's quite a thin book -- the way it's set up in this edition means that there's not a great deal of text on the page -- but on the other hand, the material is funny. Not terribly original, in that you can find the quotes in dozens of other books. If it is cheap, pick up a copy (I got mine at a Goodwill store), but otherwise, you can safely leave it.
You can't really go wrong. Dominique Enright provides a rich and concise compilation of quotes, anecdotes and bon mots from one of the most vivid, indomitable, outrageous and erudite figures from history. It might be a stocking-filler, but to paraphrase the words of a great man: Some stocking! Some filler!
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