| The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Contributor(s): Ward, Artemus (Author) |
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ISBN: 1417920742 ISBN-13: 9781417920747 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Humor | Form - Essays - Literary Collections | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6" W x 9" (1.63 lbs) 508 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |