[etni] 10 best comic works in literature
- From: Israel Cohen <cohen.izzy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:35:37 +0300
Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar sent this item to me.
*10 best comic works in literature*
In "The Top 10," J. Peder Zane puts together a list of the top 10 comic
works of all time.
Here you will find a [plot summary] of humorous stories that have stood the
test of time.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2012/0712/10-best-comic-works-in-literature/Right-Ho-Jeeves-by-P.-G.-Wodehouse-1934
10. "Right Ho, Jeeves" by P G Wodehouse (1934)
9. "Blithe Spirit," by Noël Coward (Written during the Second World War)
8. "The Ponder Heart," by Eudora Welty (1954)
7. "A Midsummer Night?s Dream," by William Shakespeare (1595)
6. "A Confederacy of Dunces," by John Kennedy Toole (1980)
5. "The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde (1895)
4. "Norwood," by Charles Portis (1966)
3. "Joseph Andrews," by Henry Fielding (1742)
2. "Tristram Shandy," by Laurence Sterne (1759?67)
1. "Don Quixote," by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
Izzy would add the Alice books by Lewis Carroll and The Phantom
Tollbooth<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth>
by Norton Juster <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Juster>.
For a humorous poem with a tragic Jewish hero, read Lewis Carroll's Hunting
of the Snark <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark>.
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