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Richard Armour (1906–1989)

Auteur de Twisted Tales from Shakespeare

64+ oeuvres 2,090 utilisateurs 53 critiques 6 Favoris

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Crédit image: Alfred Carlson, ca. 1945.

Œuvres de Richard Armour

Twisted Tales from Shakespeare (1957) 334 exemplaires
It All Started with Columbus (1953) 220 exemplaires
The classics reclassified (1960) 178 exemplaires
sea full of whales (1974) 149 exemplaires
It All Started With Eve (1956) 102 exemplaires
It All Started with Europa (1955) 88 exemplaires
The Happy Bookers (1976) 65 exemplaires
It All Started with Hippocrates (1966) 60 exemplaires
English Lit Relit (1969) 56 exemplaires
A dozen dinosaurs (1967) 55 exemplaires
Academic Bestiary (1974) 46 exemplaires
Punctured Poems (1966) 35 exemplaires
Through Darkest Adolescence (1963) 33 exemplaires
Our Presidents (1964) 28 exemplaires
A short history of sex (1970) 11 exemplaires
Odd Old Mammals (1968) 11 exemplaires
Out of my mind (1972) 10 exemplaires
Who's in Holes? (1971) 8 exemplaires
Animals on the Ceiling (1966) 8 exemplaires
Writing light verse (1958) 7 exemplaires
Insects all around us (1981) 7 exemplaires
The Spouse in the House (1975) 6 exemplaires
Strange Monsters of the Sea (1979) 6 exemplaires
Armoury of Light Verse (1962) 4 exemplaires
The Habit (2002) 3 exemplaires
The Strange Dreams of Rover Jones (1973) 3 exemplaires
A safari into satire (1961) 3 exemplaires
Educated Guesses (1983) 3 exemplaires
Coleridge the talker : a series of contemporary descriptions and comments (1940) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
Golf bawls (2005) 2 exemplaires
YOURS FOR THE ASKING 2 exemplaires
All in sport, (1972) 1 exemplaire
Pieces of Posthumorous Prose (1986) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires

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I have read a great deal of Richard Armour's writings and remember him as a handy man with a pun. He made a good living with his efforts, I hope. This a a flock of factoids, collected around famous dates. It passes the time agreeably.
 
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DinadansFriend | Sep 27, 2023 |
I have been going down my list of Armour books in reverse order, which is exactly the wrong way to engage with works of comedy. it is hard to rate them in the spirit of the first discovery. I cannot resummon the joy of this attack on the shibboleths of that very prosperous sport with the delight I may well have felt at the time. I still think this venture is worth the read especially in those tense moments when the reporter is whispering into his microphone so as not to disturb the current giant of the game as he carefully plans his chip shot.… (plus d'informations)
 
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DinadansFriend | 2 autres critiques | Sep 15, 2023 |
Hilarious collection of parodies of the literary canon. I first discovered this book on the paperback rack at the drug store where I worked at age 15. My copy went missing. I loaned it to a school chum. 33 years later, she returned the book by mail. Armour's humor made me read the originals to fully appreciate the humor. I eventually earned an English degree and worked in publishing.

See youtube for Richard Armour delivering a hilarious 1971 address at UCLA (audio only):

Richard Armour speaking at UCLA 1/8/1971… (plus d'informations)
 
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KevB1601 | 7 autres critiques | Jun 27, 2023 |
I am now reading this for the nth time, having received it as a birthday present back in the 1960's. It made its way into the bibliography for my high school research paper on Shakespeare, which says something, either about the book or about my research methods. Absolutely hilarious, especially if you like puns. As noted, the humor is mid-twentieth century and may not fall well on twenty-first century ears. However, that can be said for a lot of humor from the past. All in all, a fun way to spend an afternoon. You may even learn something about the Bard of Avon.… (plus d'informations)
 
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twogreys | 7 autres critiques | May 29, 2023 |

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Œuvres
64
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Membres
2,090
Évaluation
3.8
Critiques
53
ISBN
95
Langues
1
Favoris
6

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