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by John Mitchinson, John Lloyd| 20100| 2.015| English

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The team behind the "New York Times "bestseller "The Book of General Ignorance "turns conventional biography on its head--and shakes out the goodstuff. Following their Herculean--or is it Sisyphean?--efforts to save the living from ignorance, the two wittiest Johns in the English language turn theirattention to the dead. As the authors themselves say, "The first thing that strikes you about the Dead is just how many of them there are." Helpfully, Lloyd and Mitchinsonhave employed a simple--but ruthless--criterion for inclusion: the dead person has to be interesting. Here, then, is a dictionary of the dead, an encyclopedia of the embalmed.Ludicrous in scope, whimsical in its arrangement, this wildly entertaining tome presents pithy and provocative biographies of the no-longer-living from the famous to the undeservedly and--untilnow--permanently obscure. Spades in hand, Lloyd and Mitchinson have dug up everything embarrassing, fascinating, and downright weird about their subjects' lives and added their own uniquely irreverentobservations. Organized by capricious categories--such as dead people who died virgins, who kept pet monkeys, who lost limbs, whose corpses refused to stay put--the dearlydeparted, from the inventor of the stove to a cross-dressing, bear-baiting female gangster finally receive the epitaphs they truly deserve. Discover: * Why Freud had alifelong fear of trains* The one thing that really made Isaac Newton laugh* How Catherine the Great really died (no horse was involved) Much like the country doctor whocured smallpox (he's in here), Lloyd and Mitchinson have the perfect antidote for anyone out there dying of boredom. "The Book of the Dead"--like life itself--is hilarious, tragic, bizarre, and amazing. You may never pass a graveyard again without chuckling. "From the Hardcover edition."

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Author:John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
Publication Year:2010
ISBN:9780307716408
Language:English
File Size:2.015
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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