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Author : Willard R. Espy
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1975
Category : English language
ISBN :
A January to December "almanac" of verses and wordplay.
Author : Willard R. Espy
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Word games
ISBN : 9780233972886
Author : Willard Richardson Espy
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Children's literature, English
ISBN : 9780340351451
Author : Willard R. Espy
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Lexicology
ISBN : 9780877791454
Get a daily dose of wordplay all year. 366 days' worth of poems, puns, and puzzles (includes February 29 for leap years). Features anagrams, acrostics, palindromes, and pangrams. The best of Espy's two classic almanacs.
Author : Willard R. Espy
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary recreations
ISBN : 9780517546666
An assortment of writings, including limericks, riddles, puns puzzles, tongue twisters, poetry, malapropisms, palindromes, Tom Swifties, and Spoonerisms, for each day of the year.
Author : Willard R. Espy
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 1982-11-01
Category : Literary recreations
ISBN : 9780517564608
An assortment of writings, including limericks, riddles, puns puzzles, tongue twisters, poetry, malapropisms, palindromes, Tom Swifties, and Spoonerisms, for each day of the year.
Author : Willard Espy
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781579123246
Attention language lovers: prepare to be taken prisoner. Willard R. Espy, word gamester extraordinaire, has put together more than 200 sublimely satisfying diversions -- including acrostics, clerihews, epigrams, cryptograms, spoonerisms, palindromes, puns, and much, much more. Presented here are the wildest array of tongue twisters, brainteasers, and other mind-benders new and old, along with notes on their histories, tips on how to play them or solve them, and page after page of mind-boggling challenges you won't find anywhere else. It is a celebration of the energy, wit, flexibility, and fun of the English language by its most ardent aficionado.
Author : Anita Silvey
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1466828048
Part fun- and information-filled almanac, part good book guide, the Children's Book-a-Day Almanac is a new way to discover a great children's book--every day of the year! This fresh, inventive reference book is a dynamic way to showcase the gems, both new and old, of children's literature. Each page features an event of the day, a children's book that relates to that event, and a list of other events that took place on that day. Always informative and often surprising, celebrate a year of literature for children with The Children's Book-a-Day Almanac.
Author : John Hodgman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1101653612
In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although bestsellers such as Poor Richard’s Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly valuable, they also were largely true. Here is a different kind of handy desk reference, one in which all of the historical oddities and amazing true facts are sifted through the singular, illuminating imagination of John Hodgman—which is the nice way of saying: He made it all up. John Hodgman brings his considerable expertise to bear in answering all of the questions book buyers have been asking: -What are the mottoes of the 51 United States? THE ANSWER IS PROVIDED -Who were the U.S. presidents who had hooks for hands? THE ANSWER IS PROVIDED -What role does the Yale secret society “Skull and Bones” play in the secret world government? THERE IS NO SECRET WORLD GOVERNMENT -What was the menu at the first Thanksgiving, and did it include eels? Technically, that is two questions, but do not apologize, for John Hodgman shall answer them both . . . LATER. -Aside from a compendium of fake trivia, what is the best kind of book to write? A SIMPLE TABLE OF THE 55 MOST DRAMATIC LITERARY SITUATIONS PROVIDES THE ANSWER, and John Hodgman is the author of that table. Imagine if The Book of Lists had been rewritten by Peter Cook and Jorge Luis Borges under the pseudonym of “John Hodgman” and then renamed The Areas of My Expertise, and you will only begin to have a sense of the dizzying, uproarious, sublimely weird, and strangely wise journey that is contained within this book (along with all the pages and words). Perfect for anyone who thirsts for knowledge, and especially for collectors of books of fake trivia, The Areas of My Expertise offers through absurdity a better understanding of the world we share—and recognizes that while the truth may be stranger than fiction, it is never as strange as lies . . . or as true. Look out for John Hodgman's latest book, Vacationland, available from Viking in Fall 2017.
Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1439128324
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is a collection of twenty-two powerful and indispensable essays on Native American life, written by one of America's foremost literary voices. Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable—there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths—a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.