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Obres de Dominique Enright

The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill (2001) — Editor — 509 exemplars
The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen (2002) 143 exemplars
The Wicked Wit of Women (2000) 27 exemplars
If and Other Poems {Pocket Poets} (2002) — Editor — 14 exemplars
'A red, red rose' and other poems (2002) — Editor — 8 exemplars
Wordsworth: 'Daffodils' and other poems (2002) — Editor — 7 exemplars

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If— [poem] (1959) — Editor, algunes edicions136 exemplars
The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen (2002) — Editor — 120 exemplars

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Enright, Dominique
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female
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UK

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This was fun. The compiler draws a lot from the Juvenilia and letters, which is a different and sharper side to Austen than most of us think of. A fun and quick reference book!
 
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DrFuriosa | Dec 4, 2020 |
Ah, who doesn't love [a:William Shakespeare|947|William Shakespeare|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1360741702p2/947.jpg]?

This concise book is a collection of well known quotations from his work, organized loosely by topic. The beginning features a nice biography of the author, although it does report some stories that are more likely inventions than truth. It does, however, quote some of the better [a:Ben Jonson|22583|Ben Jonson|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1221004641p2/22583.jpg] mentions of Shakespeare.

All in all this book, as previous reviewers have commented, is a bit too PG rated to be truly good fun. It is a good quick reference to various quotations, and a decent introduction to the life of the Bard.

All in all, quite fun, but a bit too whitewashed.
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Lepophagus | Jun 14, 2018 |
Pretty much every quote that you know of that's attributed to Churchill is in here. It's quite a thin book -- the way it's set up in this edition means that there's not a great deal of text on the page -- but on the other hand, the material is funny. Not terribly original, in that you can find the quotes in dozens of other books. If it is cheap, pick up a copy (I got mine at a Goodwill store), but otherwise, you can safely leave it.
 
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EricCostello | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Mar 24, 2018 |
You can't really go wrong. Dominique Enright provides a rich and concise compilation of quotes, anecdotes and bon mots from one of the most vivid, indomitable, outrageous and erudite figures from history. It might be a stocking-filler, but to paraphrase the words of a great man: Some stocking! Some filler!
 
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MikeFutcher | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Dec 2, 2017 |

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Obres
24
També de
2
Membres
1,545
Popularitat
#16,670
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
10
ISBN
68
Llengües
11

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