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The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure

The Book of the Dead: Lives of the Justly Famous and the Undeservedly Obscure
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Издательство: Daedalus Books, 2010
Жанр: Daedalus Books
Страниц: 448 страниц

ID книги: 5154392
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The team behind the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance turns conventional biography on its head — and shakes out the good stuff. Following their Herculean -or is it Sisyphean? — efforts to save the living from ignorance, the two wittiest Johns in the English language turn their attention to the dead. As the authors themselves say, The first thing that strikes you about the Dead is just how many of them there are. Helpfully, Lloyd and Mitchinson have employed a simple — but ruthless — criterion for inclusion: the dead person has to be interesting. Here, then, is a dictionary of the dead, an encyclopedia of the embalmed. Ludicrous in scope, whimsical in its arrangement, this wildly entertaining tome presents pithy and provocative biographies of the no-longer-living from the famous to the undeservedly and — until now — permanently obscure. Spades in hand, Lloyd and Mitchinson have dug up everything embarrassing, fascinating, and downright weird about their subjects' lives and added their own uniquely irreverent observations. Organized by capricious categories — such as dead people who died virgins, who kept pet monkeys, who lost limbs, whose corpses refused to stay put — the dearly departed, from the inventor of the stove to a cross-dressing, bear-baiting female gangster finally receive the epitaphs they truly deserve.

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