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The Portable Curmudgeon

The Portable Curmudgeon

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Publisher's Synopsis

From Oscar Wilde to Evelyn Waugh, from Dorothy Parker to S.J.Perelman, the observations in this volume take the reader on a tour of life's idiocies and iniquities. It includes more than 100 quotations, anecdotes and interviews on subjects such as patriotism and punctuality, democracy and dogs.

About the Publisher

Gollancz

Gollancz

Gollancz is the oldest specialist SF & Fantasy publisher in the UK. Founded in 1927 and with a continuous SF publishing programme dating back to 1961, we are home to a galaxy of award-winning and bestselling authors. Through our long-running SF and Fantasy Masterworks programme, and major digital initiative the SF Gateway, we have one of the largest ranges of SF and Fantasy of any publisher in the world. Mission: To publish the very best authors in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, to re-present the classics of the genre to a fresh audience and to discover the stars of tomorrow. To boldly go, dare we say it, where no publisher has gone before . . .

Book information

ISBN: 9780575046382
Publisher: Gollancz
Imprint: Gollancz
Pub date:
DEWEY: 828.9120208
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 299
Weight: 210g
Height: 158mm
Width: 138mm

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