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_aNye, Bill, _d1850-1896 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe humor of "Bill" Nye |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aLittle blue book, no. 771 | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-05-16 | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction -- Words about Washington -- B. Franklin, deceased -- The discovery of America -- The Puritans -- Nero -- A singular "Hamlet" [James Owen O'Connor] -- The dubious future -- A thrilling experience -- A resign -- A guest at the Ludlow. | |
| 508 | _aCarla Foust, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _aThe humor of "Bill" Nye by Bill Nye is a collection of comic essays and satirical sketches written in the late 19th to early 20th century. It is humor/nonfiction, assembled to showcase a frontier newspaperman’s irreverent take on history, public life, and everyday absurdities. An opening introduction frames the appeal as boisterous, boyish, and anti-heroic, delighting in deflating piety and pretension. The likely topic is a breezy send-up of famous figures, American institutions, and modern habits, delivered through deadpan exaggeration and playful misuse of grand language. The pieces range from mock-historical portraits—of Washington as both revered and comically human, Franklin as an industrious printer-scientist rendered in slapstick superlatives, Columbus as a job-seeking “discoverer” courting royal funding, the Puritans as clam-digging moral policers, and even Nero as a thin-skinned tyrant—to social and cultural lampoons. A disastrous “Hamlet” performance is skewered as vanity and ineptitude; a faux-scientific forecast imagines how oysters, gadgets, and leisure will deform the “coming man”; a midnight “burglary” turns out to be a hissing radiator; a mock-official resignation from a small post office brims with bureaucratic pomposity; and a wry jailhouse visit catalogs food, class pecking orders, and small humiliations. Across the book the voice stays jaunty and colloquial, using mock-heroic diction, skewed logic, and relentless deflation to trade solemn hero-worship for loud, restorative laughter. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1924 |
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| 653 | _aAmerican wit and humor | ||
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_aGunn, John W., _d1893-1960 |
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_aHaldeman-Julius, E. _q(Emanuel), _d1888-1951 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aLittle blue book, no. 771 | |
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