Download or read book A Treasury of College Humor written by Richard F. Koppe and published by New York, Wm. Penn Publishing Corporation [1950]. This book was released on 1950 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laughter on the Hill written by Nels Juleus and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isaac Asimov s Treasury of Humor written by Isaac Asimov and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 640 jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man.
Download or read book A Treasury of Canadian Humor written by Robert Thomas Allen and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Treasury of Humor written by Eric W. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects anecdotes on subjects such as children, family life, sex, education, politics, religion, fund raising, old age, and history.
Download or read book Books and Pamphlets Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Campus Traditions written by Simon J. Bronner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American campus life shapes students, and how students shape campus lore
Download or read book Revel with a Cause written by Stephen E. Kercher and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time much like the postwar era. A time of arch political conservatism and vast social conformity. A time in which our nation’s leaders question and challenge the patriotism of those who oppose their policies. But before there was Jon Stewart, Al Franken, or Bill Maher, there were Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg, and Lenny Bruce—liberal satirists who, through their wry and scabrous comedic routines, waged war against the political ironies, contradictions, and hypocrisies of their times. Revel with a Cause is their story. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy—not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such asSecond City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was—Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period’s satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. A vibrant and probing look at some of the most influential comedy of mid-twentieth-century America, Revel with a Cause belongs on the short list of essential books for anyone interested in the relationship between American politics and popular culture.
Download or read book Piled Higher and Deeper written by Simon J. Bronner and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes college customs, beliefs, jargon, traditions, legends, jokes, pranks, and games.
Download or read book A Subtreasury of American Humor written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jack Vance Treasury written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1951 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays Brown University Library Providence Rhode Island written by Brown University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals written by David E. Sloane and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1987-09-18 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first annotated guide devoted entirely to American humor magazines and periodicals provides a comprehensive survey of a genre that has both enriched and reflected American mores, popular culture, and literature for over two hundred years. It offers analytical essays, bibliographies, and historical information on nearly three hundred of the most important individual publications, as well as extensive listings of rare periodicals about which very little is presently known.
Download or read book A Treasury of Halloween Humor written by Richard Lederer and published by Waterside Productions. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you call an empty hot dog? A hollow weenie. From best-selling language writer and International Punster of the Year Richard Lederer comes this hilarious book about our spookiest holiday. On October 31, we carve faces on pumpkins, put on scary costumes, go out trick-or-treating, and devour mouth-watering, calorie-laden goodies, which always go to waist. A Treasury of Halloween Humor is chock-full of puns, jokes, riddles, games, poems, stories, history, lore, and more! Inside you'll find biographies of your favorite monsters, including ghosts, skeletons, witches, Dracula, and Frankenstein. A ghost and a witch with a broom Stayed up very late So that they could debate About who should be frightened of whom! A gallery of Jim McLean's sprightly drawings adds to the rollicking fun of A Treasury of Halloween Humor. This is the perfect book for mummies, deadies, and children, and yourself -- everyone who enjoys Halloween humor! About Richard Lederer Richard Lederer is the author of more than fifty books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current books, The Joy of Names and A Treasury of Christmas Humor. He is a founding co-host of A Way With Words, broadcast on Public Radio. Dr. Lederer's syndicated column, Lederer on Language, appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International's Golden Gavel winner. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Simone van Egeren. Praise for Richard Lederer Richard Lederer has done it again -- another delightful, witty, and hugely absorbing celebration of the English language. Is there no stopping this man? -Bill Bryson, author of The Mother Tongue Richard Lederer is to wordplay what John Philip Sousa is to marches. -Rod L. Evans, author of Tyrannosaurus Lex Richard Lederer ought to be declared a national treasure. No one has more fun with the English language. -Richmond Times Dispatch Richard Lederer is the true King of Language Comedy. -Sidney Sheldon, author of Master of the Game
Download or read book Dancing Fools and Weary Blues written by Lawrence R. Broer and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often, the decade of the 1920s has been stereotyped with such labels as "The Roaring Twenties," "The Jazz Age," or "The Lost Generation." Historical perspective has forced reevaluation of this decade. Articles in this collection are presented in the most definitive anthology dealing with 1920s America. The contributors have put aside stereotypes to offer a valuable critique of the American dream during a time of major crises. Dancing Fools and Weary Blues also presents its readers a picture of the continual redemption and revitalization of that dream, and reasserts its basic democratic values.
Download or read book A Passion for Books written by Harold Rabinowitz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons that celebrates the joys of reading, the feeling of spending hours browsing through a bookstore, and the people for whom buying books is a necessity. Booklovers will find themselves in good company within the pages of A Passion for Books, beginning with science-fiction great Ray Bradbury's foreword and throughout contributions like-- Umberto Eco's How to Justify a Private Library, dealing with the question everyone with a sizable library is inevitably asked: "Have you read all these books?"; Gustave Flaubert's Bibliomania, the tale of a book collector so obsessed with owning a book that he is willing to kill to possess it; and Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life, in which she shares her optimistic view on the role of reading and the future of books in the computer age. Interspersed throughout are entertaining lists--Ten Bestselling Books Rejected by Publishers Twenty Times or More, Norman Mailer's Ten Favorite American Novels and many more-- plus select writings on bookstores, book clubs, cartoons about books and a specially prepared "bibliobibliography" of books about books. Whether you consider yourself a bibliomaniac or just someone who enjoys reading, A Passion for Books will provide you with a lifetime's worth of entertaining, informative, and pleasurable reading on your favorite subject--the love of books.
