Soundbites A Dictionary of Irish Political Quotations

Aubrey Dillon-Malone

Leopold

I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory: Book of Hollywood Lists [Hardcover] [Aug 11, 1999] Dillon-Malone, Aubrey ...

I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory: Book of Hollywood Lists

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Prion Books Ltd

The Cynic's Dictionary

This is an acerbic collection of alternative definitions that aim to set the record straight; epigrammatic cynicism from some of the greatest wits - Oscar Wilde, H.L. Mencken, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and modern-day practitioners including P.J. O'Rourke, Madonna and Woody Allen. H.L. Mencken defined a cynic as "someone who, when he smells flowers, looks for a coffin". But more truly, a cynic is a disillusioned idealist, and his scathing wit a way of coping with the great divide between how things ought to be and how they actually are. The quotations on show range from the sublimely subversive to the downright idiotic, and make ripostes with which to deflate pretentious windbags or infect the earnest and insulated with a jaundiced view of the world.

Reference

Did you know that if John Wayne was playing poker and a card was turned face up by accident, he made the person responsible stand up and circle the table three times? That Catherine the Great was so terrified of people finding out she had dandruff that she imprisoned her hairdresser in an iron cage? That Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, invented the coathanger? That Elizabeth I passed a law taxing men with beards? That Arthur Conan Doyle believed he would be resurrected 10 days after his death at the Albert Hall and 10,000 people turn up to witness the event. It's all here and more. Over 700 curious facts and acts organized in thematic chapters.

Funny Peculiar: A Directory of the Daft and Dotty

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Born more than a hundred years ago, Hemingway's reputation shows no sign of abating, despite those revisionist critics who accuse him of having a one-dimensional approach to life. A writer for the ages, his legacy includes at least three classic novels and a distinctive narrative style which, in his own words, 'doesn't go bad afterwards'. HEMINGWAY: THE GRACE AND THE PRESSURE reveals the public and the private man in the tangled skein that was his life. We have the bragging, brawling Hemingway, the self-indulgent poseur with his love of bullfighting, boxing and hunting, but also the man who hid behind these many masks. A man who, in the end, destroyed himself under the weight of his own impossible expectations.

Hemingway: The Grace & the Pressure

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Robson Books

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