The Wit And Humor Of America

Author : Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Humor of America written by Marshall Pinckney Wilder and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1911-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this complete 10 Volume set are selections from the pen of "this company of fun-makers" as well as many more, including a number by clever women humorists. This collection is made up of "poems, stories, humorous articles, fables, and fairy tales offered for your choice, with subjects as diverse as the styles ; but however the laugh is gained, in whatever fashion the jest is delivered, the laugh-maker is a public benefactor, for laughter is the salt of life, and keeps the whole dish sweet," (foreword). Authors such as Bret Harte, Henry Ward Beecher, James Whitcomb Riley, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and many more.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486122433
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1000 ripostes, paradoxes, and epigrams on sin, society, genius, wealth, men, women, religion, America, education, and smoking: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etcetera. Also excerpts from his trial testimony, where the tragedy implicit in Wilde's humor is nowhere more vivid.

Author : Robert J. Dole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743203925
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Presidential Wit written by Robert J. Dole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former senator and presidential candidate collects bipartisan presidential humor from famous, and not-so-famous, chief executives, from Washington to Clinton.

Author : Nathaniel Ward
Publisher : Boston : J. Munroe
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.S2/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America written by Nathaniel Ward and published by Boston : J. Munroe. This book was released on 1843 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Errett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698153863
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Wit written by Benjamin Errett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Got wit? We’ve all been in that situation where we need to say something clever, but innocuous; smart enough to show some intelligence, without showing off; something funny, but not a joke. What we need in that moment is wit—that sparkling combination of charm, humor, confidence, and most of all, the right words at the right time. Elements of Wit is an engaging book that brings together the greatest wits of our time, and previous ones from Oscar Wilde to Nora Ephron, Winston Churchill to Christopher Hitchens, Mae West to Louis CK, and many in between. With chapters covering the essential ingredients of wit, this primer sheds light on how anyone—introverts, extroverts, wallflowers, and bon vivants—can find the right zinger, quip, parry, or retort…or at least be a little bit more interesting.

Author : Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724809391
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X. ) written by Marshall Pinckney Wilder and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder

Author : Marshall Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781537139555
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Humor of America written by Marshall Wilder and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Zall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171865
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin's Humor written by Paul Zall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he called himself merely a “printer” in his will, Benjamin Franklin could have also called himself a diplomat, a doctor, an electrician, a frontier general, an inventor, a journalist, a legislator, a librarian, a magistrate, a postmaster, a promoter, a publisher—and a humorist. John Adams wrote of Franklin, “He had wit at will. He had humor that when he pleased was pleasant and delightful . . . [and] talents for irony, allegory, and fable, that he could adapt with great skill, to the promotion of moral and political truth.” In Benjamin Franklin’s Humor, author Paul M. Zall shows how one of America’s founding fathers used humor to further both personal and national interests. Early in his career, Franklin impersonated the feisty widow Silence Dogood in a series of comically moralistic essays that helped his brother James outpace competitors in Boston’s incipient newspaper market. In the mid-eighteenth century, he displayed his talent for comic impersonation in numerous editions of Poor Richard’s Almanac, a series of pocket-sized tomes filled with proverbs and witticisms that were later compiled in Franklin’s The Way to Wealth (1758), one of America’s all-time bestselling books. Benjamin Franklin was sure to be remembered for his early work as an author, printer, and inventor, but his accomplishments as a statesman later in life firmly secured his lofty stature in American history. Zall shows how Franklin employed humor to achieve desired ends during even the most difficult diplomatic situations: while helping draft the Declaration of Independence, while securing France’s support for the American Revolution, while brokering the treaty with England to end the War for Independence, and while mediating disputes at the Constitutional Convention. He supervised and facilitated the birth of a nation with customary wit and aplomb. Zall traces the development of an acute sense of humor throughout the life of a great American. Franklin valued humor not as an end in itself but as a means to gain a competitive edge, disseminate information, or promote a program. Early in life, he wrote about timely topics in an effort to reach a mass reading class, leaving an amusing record of early American culture. Later, Franklin directed his talents toward serving his country. Regardless of its origin, the best of Benjamin Franklin’s humor transcends its initial purpose and continues to evoke undying laughter at shared human experiences.

Author : Erma Bombeck
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 030777824X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Wit's End written by Erma Bombeck and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America's irrepressible doyenne of domestic satire." THE BOSTON GLOBE Madcap, bittersweet humor in classic Erma Bombeck-style. You'll laugh until it hurts and love it! "Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet, he's treading water. What do you mean you're a participle in the school play and you need a costume? Those rotten kids. If only they'd let me wake up in my own way. Why do they have to line up along my bed and stare at me like Moby Dick just washed up onto a beach somewhere?"

Author : Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Humor of America written by Marshall Pinckney Wilder and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: