Biography for Beginners

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Humour & Comedy, General Humour
Cover of the book Biography for Beginners by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Dover Publications
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Author: Edmund Clerihew Bentley ISBN: 9780486791685
Publisher: Dover Publications Publication: February 20, 2014
Imprint: Dover Publications Language: English
Author: Edmund Clerihew Bentley
ISBN: 9780486791685
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication: February 20, 2014
Imprint: Dover Publications
Language: English

The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about Chaps.
With these rhyming lines, English novelist and humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley introduces this book and an unusual form of verse of his own invention. Bentley's four-line poems, known as "clerihews," offer satirical views of historical figures, from Edward the Confessor and Odo of Bayeux to Sir Walter Raleigh, Jane Austen, Karl Marx, Theodore Roosevelt, and many others. The witty verses are accompanied by the book's outstanding feature: whimsical full-page illustrations by G. K. Chesterton.

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The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about Chaps.
With these rhyming lines, English novelist and humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley introduces this book and an unusual form of verse of his own invention. Bentley's four-line poems, known as "clerihews," offer satirical views of historical figures, from Edward the Confessor and Odo of Bayeux to Sir Walter Raleigh, Jane Austen, Karl Marx, Theodore Roosevelt, and many others. The witty verses are accompanied by the book's outstanding feature: whimsical full-page illustrations by G. K. Chesterton.

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