The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G. Wodehouse, by Muir, Frank (editor)
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The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G. Wodehouse, by Muir, Frank (editor). Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1990. Edition: Book Club Edition. ISBN: 0192141066. Hardcover, 1162 pages. Attractively bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. There is no price on the jacket, so this is probably a book club edition.

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book contains gift inscription of several lines on first free end paper, otherwise fine. Jacket has a one inch closed tear near front of lower spine end. No other significant chips or tears.

Contents: From the jacket

The range of comic material is amazing -- from the gentle, charming comedy of manners, to biting satire, to outrageous parody. There are excerpts from the novels of Jane Austen and P.G. Wodehouse and Mark Twain, complete short stories by O. Henry and Frank O'Connor, classic tall tales from Australia (including one by "Banjo" Patterson, who also wrote "Waltzing Matilda"), passages from Groucho Marx's correspondence with Warner Brothers, newspaper columns written by Art Buchwald and Myles na Gopaleen (the novelist Flann O'Brien), a selection of Samuel Johnson's comic definitions, plus a sprinkling of egregious puns, witty saying, and even the clever names of stores (such as the New York restaurant "Just for the Halibut" and the London beauty parlor "Curl Up and Dye"). Muir has gathered work from over two hundred writers and from every English-speaking country.