| The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Contributor(s): Ward, Artemus (Author) |
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ISBN: 1162791675 ISBN-13: 9781162791678 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Humor | Form - Essays - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6" W x 9" (1.48 lbs) 508 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 California and Return; The London Punch Letters; Artemus Ward's Panorama; and Miscellaneous. |