Joe Miller's complete jest book
Author : Joe Miller
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1859
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Author : Joe Miller
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1859
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 1844
Category : English wit and humor
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Author : John Mottley
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Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 1903
Category : English wit and humor
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Author : Joe Miller
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Page : 500 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 1832
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Author : Joe Miller
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : Jim Holt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0393069443
“Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”—Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous offensiveness—just the kind of mature philosophical reflection readers have come to expect from the ever-entertaining Jim Holt. Indeed, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This is the first book to trace the evolution of the joke all the way from the standup comics of ancient Athens to the comedy-club Seinfelds of today. After exploring humor’s history in Part One, Holt delves into philosophy in Part Two: Wall Street jokes; jokes about rednecks and atheists, bulimics and politicians; jokes you missed if you didn’t go to a Catholic girls’ school; jokes about logic and existence itself . . . all became fodder for the grand theories of Aristotle, Kant, Freud, and Wittgenstein in this heady mix of the high and low, of the ribald and profound, from America’s most beloved philosophical pundit.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 4411 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
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Category : Reference
ISBN : 1465562885
This is the third English Dictionary which the present Editor has prepared, and he may therefore lay claim to an unusually prolonged apprenticeship to his trade. It is surely unnecessary for him to say that he believes this to be the best book of the three, and he can afford to rest content if the Courteous Reader receive it with the indulgence extended to his Library Dictionary, published in the spring of 1898. It is based upon that work, but will be found to possess many serviceable qualities of its own. It is not much less in content, and its greater relative portability is due to smaller type, to thinner paper, and still more to a rigorous compression and condensation in the definitions, by means of which room has been found for many additional words. The aim has been to include all the common words in literary and conversational English, together with words obsolete save in the pages of Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Authorised Version of the Bible. An attempt has been made also to include the common terms of the sciences and the arts of life, the vocabulary of sport, those Scotch and provincial words which assert themselves in Burns, Scott, the Brontës, and George Eliot, and even the coinages of word-masters like Carlyle, Browning, and Meredith. Numberless compound idiomatic phrases have also been given a place, in each case under the head of the significant word.
Author : Public Library of Victoria
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Page : 998 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Public libraries
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Author : Heather Nathans
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472122703
While battling negative stereotypes, American Jews carved out new roles for themselves within the first theatrical entertainments in America. Jewish citizens were active as performers, playwrights, critics, managers, and theatrical shareholders, and often tied their involvement in these endeavors to the patriotic rhetoric of the young republic as they struggled to establish themselves in the new nation. Examining play texts, theatrical reviews, political discourse, and public performances of Jewish rights and rituals, Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans argues that Jewish stage types shed light on our understanding of the status of Jewish Americans during a critical historical period. Using an eclectic range of sources including theatrical reviews, diaries, letters, cartoons, portraiture, tax records, rumors flying around the tavern, and more, Heather S. Nathans has listened for the echoes of vanished audiences who witnessed and responded to these stereotypes onstage, from the earliest appearance of Shylock on an American stage in 1752 to Jewish theater artists on the eve of the Civil War. The book integrates social, political, and cultural histories, with an examination of those texts (both dramatic and literary) that shaped the stage Jew.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382115948
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.