THE OXFORD BOOK OF HUMOROUS PROSE
by Frank Muir
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0192141066
- ISBN 13
- 9780192141064
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is a first reprint of the Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, a 'Conducted Tour' by the English comedy writer Frank Muir (1920-1998).
It is not a true anthology; it is a stroll through various humorists of various nationalities writing in English: the standard (Dickens, Twain), the expected (Dorothy Parker, Benchley, Shaw), the unexpected (Edgar Allen Poe, George Eliot), the well-known (Waugh, Leacock, Amis), the unknown (Johnson I. Hooper; Barry Crump), the classic (Sterne, Samuel Johnson), and the modern (Erma Bombeck, Garrison Keillor). Selections are generally very short, with bridges, often fairly humorous of themselves, by Muir. The humor ranges from the broad to the subtle. I attach photos of some of the contents pages.
It was an instant best-seller when it was published in 1990, this is the first reprint, from the same year.
It is 1154 pages and weighs 3 lbs.
The dust jacket has a little wear--small tears that have been taped.
The book itself is in mint condition, with no marks of any kind in it or on it.
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- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 939
- Title
- THE OXFORD BOOK OF HUMOROUS PROSE
- Author
- Frank Muir
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0192141066
- ISBN 13
- 9780192141064
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 1154
- Keywords
- Comedy, British Comedy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Story Collections; Humor and Satire; Canadian Fiction; British Fiction;
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