R.F. Patterson
Auteur de Webster's Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de R.F. Patterson
Concise English Dictionary 6 exemplaires
New Roget's Thesaurus and Webster's Dictionary 4 exemplaires
The graduate English dictionary 2 exemplaires
The Everyday English Dictionary 2 exemplaires
New Webster's Dictionary 1 exemplaire
New Webster's Dictionary, 1993 Edition 1 exemplaire
New Webster's Expanded Dictionary, 2003 Edition 1 exemplaire
New Webster's Dictionary (expanded edition) - Copy 2 1 exemplaire
New Webster's Dictionary (expanded edition) Copy 3 1 exemplaire
Webster's Large Print Dictionary (Kappa Books) 1 exemplaire
The Everyday English Dictionary 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Patterson, R.F.
- Nom légal
- Patterson, Richard Ferrar
- Date de naissance
- 1888
- Date de décès
- deceased
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Groot-Brittannië
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 26
- Membres
- 514
- Popularité
- #48,284
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 16
Which is why I'm all the more impressed that R.F. Patterson was able to read the whole thing and then agonize over the rhymes to summarize it in amusing verse! With lines like:
And I decided that at least
I'd be an abbot or a priest.
But my respected parent said,
"You're far too big a dunderhead."
and:
By nature a determined Stoic
I panted after deeds heroic;
When Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Was liquidated, it was grand.
and:
Though half-a-dozen crazy schemers
May pose as Germany's redeemers,
One man alone as gold is rated,
The others are electroplated.
It is thus easy to read and at the same time you understand what the Fuhrer was trying to say. Perhaps I will just give up my attempts to read the real thing, since this version does quite nicely.
I would recommend this to people interested in World War II or the Holocaust, and also to those who like limericks and humor in the style of Will Cuppy and Richard Armour.
A matter of interest: this book was originally published in 1940, when Germany was really pounding hard on the UK. Had the Nazis invaded and conquered Britain -- something that was a distinct possibility at the time of writing -- Mr. Patterson might have found himself in a concentration camp or worse. He was really quite brave in publishing it.… (plus d'informations)