Mr Key's Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives - Couverture rigide

Key, Frank

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1472115236 ISBN 13 : 9781472115232

Editeur : Constable, 2015

Synopsis

Absurdly Abbreviated Lives of the The Great Figures Of History

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

FRANK KEY is the legendary proprietor of Hooting Yard, a surreal humour website, and author of numerous books, including Befuddled By Cormorants. He currently writes the regular Key’s Cupboard column for the Dabbler website.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Did you know that

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· The Gaelic nationalist Willie Gibson was rumoured to keep a tortoise in his sporran
· Fanny Cradock and her husband Johnnie were once attacked by a flock of enraged owls
· ‘Stephen Fry’ is the name of a large granite gorilla owned by a member of Procol Harum
· Emily Dickinson held the view that people must have puddings
· The Beatles were once banned from performing in Israel in case their ‘yeah-yeah-yeah howls’ struck dead a real beetle
· Tove Jansson liked to get out of bed at 4am and pretend to be a tree, while a squirrel ran up and down her frozen limbs
· St Guinefort was a thirteenth-century French greyhound, who was wrongly convicted of infanticide
· Samuel Wesley was haunted by an apparition of a badger with no head, called Jeffrey?

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

Having considered writing an update of Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Mr Key concluded that some books are unimproveable. Instead, he decided to collect a single, unadorned fact about each of his subjects, creating a cornucopia of little nuggets for readers to deploy at the kinds of swish, sophisticated cocktail parties to which they are no doubt invited.

The result is a collection ranging from Richard Nixon’s favourite pastime (mashing potatoes) to Gertrude Stein’s preferred writing method (in the presence of cows), and from the name of Michael Tippett’s refrigerator (‘Bernard Levin’) to George Orwell’s terse diary entries on the subject of eggs.

Also covering historic phenomena such as the Muggletonian sect (who wanted to ban hot air ballooning lest the balloons crash into the sky), Duck Density (who ranked universities on the density of ducks on their lakes) and the Messiah of Gévaudan (a sixth-century man who was driven insane by flies), this is quite possibly the only book you will ever need to own.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Constable
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472115236
• ISBN 13: 9781472115232
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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