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A Book of Nonsense (Alma Quirky Classics) by Edward Lear
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Category: Classics | Series: Quirky Classics Ser.
"There was an Old Derry down Derry, Who loved to see little folks merry;So he made them a Book, And with laughter they shookAt the fun of that Derry down Derry." First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry," A Book of Nonsense is a collection adapted from the limericks and illu ...Show more
Dirty Limericks by ANONYMOUS
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Category: Poetry and Drama | Series: Quirky Classics
Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in print for public consumption, although many had been pr ...Show more
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John William ...Show more
The Death of a Civil Servant by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In 'The Death of a Civil Servant', an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories included in this volume, 'A Calculated Marriage', 'The Culprit', 'The Excl ...Show more
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