Title: Biography for beginners: being a collection of miscellaneous examples for the use of upper forms (1905?)
Publisher: Cornell University Library
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1112188363
ISBN 13: 9781112188367
Binding: Paperback
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.01 pounds

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Originally published in ca. 1905. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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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.
Dover (2014) republication of the edition originally published by T. Werner Laurie, London, 1925.
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