Oliver Herford - Cupid's Cyclopedia

Name: Cupid's Cyclopedia
Author: Oliver Herford

You can listen here for free Cupid's Cyclopedia. Genre: Humorous Fiction, Satire, . You can also listen to the full version (full text) online without registration and SMS on the site Audiobook-mp3.com or read the summary, preface (abstract), description and read reviews (comments) about the work.

Author: Oliver Herford

Genres: Humorous Fiction, Satire,

23.01.2020

01:05:56

276

Set sleep timer

Sleep timer Reading will stop after

0 hours

20 minutes

Enable timer

Oliver Herford - Cupid's Cyclopedia book summary

Cupid's Cyclopedia - description and summary of the book. , listen for free online at the digital library site Audiobook-mp3.com

This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and illustrator, John Cecil Clay. Herford’s books were usually short and quite popular in their time. He is a master of the witty remark and joke, i.e., “Many are called but few get up” and “Only the young die good”. Cupid’s Cyclopedia is a jesting alphabetical list of words and their definitions dealing with the course of true love; the book closes with an essay on the same subject entitled “Amoria,” a tongue-in-cheek imaginative travelogue on “the most ancient and honorable country upon the earth’s surface.” The text has many illustrations that make the author’s thoughts more entertaining and often clearer. There is an appendix, but the text indicates that it has been removed. (Summary by David Wales)