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The Cassell Dictionary Of Anecdotes: 1000 Entertaining Anecdotes On Themes As Diverse As Fame, Flattery And Forgetfulness

by Nigel Rees

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A collection of over 1000 stories under 400 keyword headings that embrace themes as diverse as absent-mindedness, heckling, resignations and windbags. The anecdotes feature a host of famous names from all walks of life and from all periods of history - monarchs and mistresses, peers and presidents, composers and comedians - each of them presented in a light that is not always flattering but in some way revelatory.… (more)

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082Information › Anthologies and Quotations › English Anthologies

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PN6162.C288Language and Literature › Literature (General) › Literature (General) › Collections of general literature › Wit and humor › By region or country

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