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Richard Armour (1906–1989)

Autor(a) de Twisted Tales from Shakespeare

64+ Works 2,085 Membros 53 Reviews 6 Favorited

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Obras de Richard Armour

Twisted Tales from Shakespeare (1957) 333 cópias
It All Started with Columbus (1953) 220 cópias
The classics reclassified (1960) 178 cópias
sea full of whales (1974) 149 cópias
It All Started With Eve (1956) 101 cópias
It All Started with Europa (1955) 88 cópias
The Happy Bookers (1976) 65 cópias
A dozen dinosaurs (1967) 55 cópias
English Lit Relit (1969) 55 cópias
Academic Bestiary (1974) 46 cópias
Punctured Poems (1966) 35 cópias
Through Darkest Adolescence (1963) 33 cópias
Our Presidents (1964) 28 cópias
A short history of sex (1970) 11 cópias
Odd Old Mammals (1968) 11 cópias
Out of my mind (1972) 10 cópias
Who's in Holes? (1971) 8 cópias
Animals on the Ceiling (1966) 8 cópias
Writing light verse (1958) 7 cópias
Insects all around us (1981) 7 cópias
The Spouse in the House (1975) 6 cópias
Strange Monsters of the Sea (1979) 6 cópias
Armoury of Light Verse (1962) 4 cópias
The Habit (2002) 3 cópias
A safari into satire (1961) 3 cópias
Educated Guesses (1983) 3 cópias
Golf bawls (2005) 2 cópias
All in sport, (1972) 1 exemplar(es)
Pieces of Posthumorous Prose (1986) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias

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I have read a great deal of Richard Armour's writings and remember him as a handy man with a pun. He made a good living with his efforts, I hope. This a a flock of factoids, collected around famous dates. It passes the time agreeably.
 
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DinadansFriend | Sep 27, 2023 |
I have been going down my list of Armour books in reverse order, which is exactly the wrong way to engage with works of comedy. it is hard to rate them in the spirit of the first discovery. I cannot resummon the joy of this attack on the shibboleths of that very prosperous sport with the delight I may well have felt at the time. I still think this venture is worth the read especially in those tense moments when the reporter is whispering into his microphone so as not to disturb the current giant of the game as he carefully plans his chip shot.… (mais)
 
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DinadansFriend | outras 2 resenhas | Sep 15, 2023 |
Hilarious collection of parodies of the literary canon. I first discovered this book on the paperback rack at the drug store where I worked at age 15. My copy went missing. I loaned it to a school chum. 33 years later, she returned the book by mail. Armour's humor made me read the originals to fully appreciate the humor. I eventually earned an English degree and worked in publishing.

See youtube for Richard Armour delivering a hilarious 1971 address at UCLA (audio only):

Richard Armour speaking at UCLA 1/8/1971… (mais)
 
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KevB1601 | outras 7 resenhas | Jun 27, 2023 |
I am now reading this for the nth time, having received it as a birthday present back in the 1960's. It made its way into the bibliography for my high school research paper on Shakespeare, which says something, either about the book or about my research methods. Absolutely hilarious, especially if you like puns. As noted, the humor is mid-twentieth century and may not fall well on twenty-first century ears. However, that can be said for a lot of humor from the past. All in all, a fun way to spend an afternoon. You may even learn something about the Bard of Avon.… (mais)
 
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twogreys | outras 7 resenhas | May 29, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
64
Also by
1
Membros
2,085
Popularidade
#12,326
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
53
ISBNs
95
Idiomas
1
Favorito
6

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