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Sto caricando le informazioni... Curing Hiccups with Small Fires (2009)di Karl Shaw
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a compendium of weirdies mostly from England that was really funny and well written. I've enjoyed the other "list" books from Shaw and this was no exception. He has great humour in his writing and it kept me interested cover to cover. ( ) Eccentrics are my favorite type of people and British eccentrics are my favorite types of eccentrics so "Curing hiccups with small fires" was always going to be a hit with me. I've read a fair number of books on eccentrics in my time and this is one of the better ones; Shaw has a good ear for nuts (see also his book on mad European royals for further evidence of this) and this book doesn't fail to deliver heaps of mad British types. I've read many a book on eccentrics so many of Shaw's subjects were not new to me but the biographies are not lacking in humour. Certainly one to recommend, as with any Karl Shaw tome. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A fast, funny celebration of more than 250 of history's greatest oddballs, all of whom just happen to be British...The English aristocrat John 'Mad Jack' Mytton died a bloated, paralysed and penniless debtor in prison. His premature demise was partly due to injuries sustained while setting fire to his own night-shirt to try to cure hiccups. Just before the horribly burned Mytton slumped into unconsciousness he said, "Well, the hiccups is gone, by God."' An 18th-century French scholar attributed the British talent for eccentricity to a 'mixture of fogs, beef and beer...aggravated by the tedium of the English Sunday'. Whatever the reason, the British Isles do seem to have thrown up more than their fair share of magnificent oddballs, the finest of which are profiled in this fast, funny celebration of over 200 aristocrats, inventors, artists and the just plain weird... * Dr Samuel Johnson is said to have shaved off all of his bodily hair, just to see how long it would take to grow back * Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, once related an experience he had at Westminster: 'I had a horrid nightmare. I dreamed I was making a speech in the House of Lords, and woke up to find I actually was.' * Percy Bysshe Shelley once tied a cat to a kite in a thunder storm to see if it would be electrocuted Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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