Start from Somewhere Else: an exposition of wit and humor polite and perilous

Oliver St John GOGARTY

Verlag: Garden City: Doubleday, 1955

Beschreibung

Free endpapers partially embrowned, dustwrapper (by Edward Gorey) faded at spine and rather frayed. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Errata: / Cerfeit for surfeit / (a glance at Benet [i.e. Bennett] Cerf.) / hubris [in Greek letter] for hubris [in Greek letter: p. 41] / Dorset Lane for Dovert [i.e. Doveset, p. 56] / O.St.J.G." Here, promises the dustwrapper blurb, is "a book about what's funny - and, often, why". "Alfred Austin," suggests the author, "may have been the first of our moderns? This is the story that Lady Cunard told me. She and her party were at some country house in England where the poet laureate, Alfred, was a guest. He came down to breakfast one morning and he met Lady Cunard, who, after all, was 'aware of literature.' 'Surely, Laureate,' she said, 'the Muse must have visited you last night?' It took quite a long time before shyly the laureate admitted it. 'And what was it that she inspired?' Reluctantly, very reluctantly, the poet laureate recited the lines that the Muse inspired. 'Now that Winter is over / The lilacs are growing / Mauver and mauver.'". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33M100276

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Start from Somewhere Else: an exposition of ...

Verlag: Garden City: Doubleday

Erscheinungsdatum: 1955

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition