Bibliograph

Humorists, from Hogarth to Noël Coward, Paul Johnson

Type

Label

Humorists, from Hogarth to Noël Coward, Paul Johnson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-218) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Humorists

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

526084298

Responsibility statement

Paul Johnson

Sub title

from Hogarth to Noël Coward

Summary

"In the tradition of Paul Johnson's Intellectuals, Creators, and Heroes, a new book of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in modern history"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Hogarth : the grand old master of chaos -- Benjamin Franklin : founding father of American laughs -- Dr. Johnson : melancholy merriment -- Thomas Rowlandson : bottoms up! -- Dickens : nothing so odd as life -- Toulouse-Lautrec : master-monster -- G.K. Chesterton : a living, talking gargoyle -- Damon Runyon : guys, dolls, and the puppet master -- W.C. Fields : the dong with the luminous nose -- Charlie Chaplin : supple, subtle, and sentimental -- Laurel and Hardy : era of good fooling -- The Marx Brothers : second law of thermodynamics -- James Thurber : raising a laugh by accident -- Noël Coward, Nancy Mitford, and class

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