Wickedly funny, this collection of acerbic definitions features quotes from a range of renowned cynics who tell it like it really is. The likes of Ambrose Bierce, Mae West, and W.C. Fields are represented in this entertaining, no-holds-barred alternative dictionary.

Cynic's Dictionary

Reference

Dillon-Malone, Aubrey

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

McGraw=Hill

Did you know that Arnold Bennett died of typhoid after drinking a glass of Paris tap water to show that it was safe? That Voltaire would get rid of boring house guests by pretending to faint? Or that Raymond Chandler was inspired to write by watching his wife do the housework in the nude? It's all here and more in over 300 fantastic and fascinating literary lists, including authors who wrote standing up, writers who couldn't spell, classic literary ripostes and insults, romances, bizarre dedications, eccentric behavior, discarded titles for famous works, last words, writers' day jobs and hobbies, unusual work habits, sexual peccadilloes, strange deaths, unintended double entendres from the classics, bad reviews of future classics, literary feuds, lost manuscripts, writers and their pets, writers who were spies, writers who stammered...

Stranger Than Fiction: A Book of Literary Lists

Contemporary Books

I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory: A Book of Hollywood Trivia Lists

The Cynic's Dictionary

A collection of alternative definitions that aim to set the record straight. Samples of epigrammatic cynicism are featured from some well-known wits, including Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and George Bernard Shaw.

Prion

Historic Pubs of Dublin

As the most celebrated drinking city in the world, it is Dublin's pubs that are its defining experience. Renowned for their timeless charm, at their most lively they embody the "craic" of the Irish, while on a lazy afternoon they exude a quiet sense of history. Apart from being watering holes, many were once also grocers, bonders, and trading and meeting places. Others are the very stage upon which the dramas of Irish history have been played out. The story of Dublin's pubs forms a social history of the city itself with a cast of hundreds. Not just the famous— Michael Collins, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan—but unsung heroes of Dublin drinking culture too: legendary brewers, barmen, publicans, and drinkers. In Historic Pubs of Dublin, Aubrey Malone takes us on a tour of 60 of the finest historic bars the city has to offer. Complete with maps, suggested walks, and 100 fine color photos, this is a most genial traveling companion.

History

Europe

The Little Book of How to Survive the Big 40

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