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A Book of Nonsense (Alma Quirky Classics) by Edward Lear
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
"There was an Old Derry down Derry, Who loved to see little folks merry;So he made them a Book, And with laughter they shookAt the fun of that Derry down Derry." First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry," A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illu ...Show more
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language. Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise ...Show more
Aphorisms by Napoleon Bonaparte
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Category: Humour | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French novelist Honore de Balzac set himself the pains-taking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time. Arranged into four themes (covering social life, the military arts, the e ...Show more
Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations. Written towards the end of his wr ...Show more
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense Poetry by Edward Lear
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Category: Poetry | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was ill and confined to her bed, 'The Owl and the Pussycat' sees the two enamoured animals sail away in a boat "for a year and a day / To the land with the bong tree grows", where they get married. Long considered one of the n ...Show more
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