Beschreibung:
"e;The world's humour, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization."e;Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works and of how it very often doesn't. As well as being remarkably insightful about the various ways in which a joke can fall flat, Humour as I See It is an exceptionally humane testimony from one of the English language's most gifted humourists.
“The world’s humour, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization.”
Stephen Leacock writes a masterful account of how humour works—and of how it very often doesn’t. As well as being remarkably insightful about the various ways in which a joke can fall flat, Humour as I See It is an exceptionally humane testimony from one of the English language’s most gifted humourists.