An Outline of Humor Being a True Chronicle From Prehistoric Ages to the Twentieth Century
By Carolyn Wells
Length26h 53m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Being a True Chronicle From Prehistoric Ages to the Twentieth Century". Speaking exactly, an Outline of the World's Humor is an impossibility. For surely the adjectives most applicable to humor are elusive, evasive, evanescent, ephemeral, intangible, imponderable, and other terms expressing unavailability. To outline such a thing is like trying to trap a sunbeam or bound an ocean. Yet an Outline of the History of the World's recorded humor as evolved by the Human Race, seems within the possibilities. First of all, it must be understood that the term humor is here used in its broadest, most comprehensive sense. Including both wit and humor; including the comic, fun, mirth, laughter, gayety, repartee,—all types and classes of jests and jokes."
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Humor
Length26 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1FOREWORD
16THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
2INTRODUCTION
17FRENCH HUMOR
3ANCIENT HUMOR
18GERMAN HUMOR
4MIDDLE DIVISION
19THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
5PART I GREECE
20THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (pt. 1)
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6PART II ROME
21THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (pt. 2)
7PART III
22FRENCH HUMOR
8GREEK
23GERMAN HUMOR
9ROMAN (pt. 1)
24ITALIAN HUMOR
10ROMAN (pt. 2)
25SPANISH HUMOR
11MODERN HUMOR
26RUSSIAN HUMOR
12FRENCH WIT AND HUMOR
27AMERICAN HUMOR (pt. 1)
13GERMAN WIT AND HUMOR
28AMERICAN HUMOR (pt. 2)
14ITALIAN WIT AND HUMOR
29FOOTNOTES:
15SPANISH WIT AND HUMOR
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