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10 best books like Brush Up Your Shakespeare! (Michael Macrone): Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit, The Norton Shakespeare, Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read, Manga Shakespeare: The Tempest, Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language, A Handbook to Literature, The Shakespeare Miscellany, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists #3, The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit
AuthorWayne F. Hill
ISBN0517885395
The sharpest stings ever to snap from the tip of an English-speaking tongue are here at hand, ready to be directed at the knaves, villains, and coxcombs of the reader's choice. Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 examples of Shakespeare's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of appearance,...
The Norton Shakespeare
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0393041077
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I have just read every Shakespeare play from this edition and than some. This has been a goal of mine for some time. Some plays I've read previously for various classes in high school and college, but there was a bit of his stuff I never read before and some stuff I didn't even realize that...
Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read
AuthorHoward Mittelmark
ISBN0061856037
Read This Next is a guide to more than 500 great books, many of which you have not yet read. (On average, 481.) After you have read even one of these books, you will be amazed you survived without it this long. Multiply that by 481, and you get a lifetime of value for just $14.99 or even more value if you don’t...
Manga Shakespeare: The Tempest
AuthorRichard Appignanesi
ISBN0810994763
The latest in the breakout series Manga Shakespeare, introducing teens to a new kind of Bard.

Shipwrecks, long-lost families, and a powerful magician make Shakespeare’s masterpiece perfect for the Manga Shakespeare. Miranda and her father, Prospero, have been on an isolated island...
Get Thee to a Punnery: An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language
AuthorRichard Lederer
Parts of this book were really fascinating. I liked reading about the different types of puns and other types of word play. As a dictionary of puns, it really works and has a lot of good examples. Sometimes there were too many examples and I really didn't want to read through them all. Some of the puns relied...
A Handbook to Literature
AuthorWilliam Harmon
ISBN0130127310
It is a handy book that can be read for pleasure. However, the publisher really doesn't need to update it every 3 years to force poor students to buy the new editions. In this 10th edition the editor admitted there was little substantial he could add. In fact, he mentioned his children suggested three new...
The Shakespeare Miscellany
AuthorDavid Crystal
ISBN1585677167
Once again, Crystal uses his wit and humour alongside his fantastic wealth of knowledge and academic style.
This text is full of lots of interesting facts - 'miscellany' is exactly what it is! A perfect 'dip in' book for lovers of Shakespeare. The text does not cover Shakespeare's plays, but it is...
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
AuthorMargaret Drabble
ISBN0198614535
The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as the standard source of reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, the text was...
The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists #3
AuthorAmy Wallace
ISBN0553278681
Several people have wondered over the last year which review I've been trolled on most often. In an effort to answer this vital question, I've compiled another list. Here, you can see all my reviews on which the comment thread contains at least 100 comments:

The Quran (613)

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The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate
AuthorEugene Ehrlich
ISBN0062701908
Between TV talk shows, radio call-in programs, email and the Internet, spontaneous-talk media has skyrocketed in the '90s. People are interacting more frequently and more fervently than ever before, turning the English language into an indecipherable mess. Now, this unique and concise compendium...
The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker
AuthorCharles Harrington Elster
The definitive pronouncement on more than 1,500 of our most commonly mispronounced words.

From the language maven Charles Harrington Elster comes an authoritative and unapologetically opinionated look at American speech. As Elster points out, there is no sewer in connoisseur, no dip...
A Peterson Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America
AuthorRoger Tory Peterson
ISBN0395911729
Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and...
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
AuthorJessica Mitford
ISBN0374521190
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England’s most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter...
The Oxford Companion to the English Language
AuthorTom McArthur
Language is the life blood of a culture, and to be interested in culture is in some sense to be interested in language, in the shapes and sounds of words, in the history of reading, writing, and speech, in the endless variety of dialects and slangs, in the incessant creativity of the human mind as it reaches...
The Mathematical Tourist: New & Updated Snapshots of Modern Mathematics
AuthorIvars Peterson
ISBN0805071598
In the first edition of The Mathematical Tourist, renowned science journalist Ivars Peterson took readers on an unforgettable tour through the sometimes bizarre, but always fascinating, landscape of modern mathematics. Now the journey continues in a new, updated edition that includes all the...
Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook
AuthorFrancine Segan
ISBN0375509178
"Shakespeare's Kitchen not only reveals, sometimes surprisingly, what people were eating in Shakespeare's time but also provides recipes that today's cooks can easily re-create with readily available ingredients."
--from the Foreword by Patrick O'Connell Francine Segan introduces contemporary...
Swing: A Mystery
AuthorRupert Holmes
ISBN0812970977
“Swing just might be the best historical thriller of the year. Certainly it is the most creative.”
–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

In the swinging big band era, jazz saxophonist and arranger Ray Sherwood is haunted by personal tragedy. But when Gail Prentice, a beautiful and talented...
Endangered Pleasures: In Defense of Naps, Bacon, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences
AuthorBarbara Holland
Here is a refreshing look at life as it ought to be. Bare feet, gardening, dawdling over the newspaper, oversleeping, and idle summer vacations are infinitely more satisfying than counting fat grams, eating only vegetables, and sitting behind that desk every day. So toss out the guilt and rebel. Don't...
Pocket Dictionary of Signing, Revised and Expanded
AuthorRod R. Butterworth
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List
AuthorShelley Mosley
ISBN1592576451
Great reads for busy people.

This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and non-fiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, women’s fiction and chick lit, westerns, science fiction, such...
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary: Or Why Can't Anybody Spell
AuthorVivian Cook
ISBN0743270991
"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson
Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it.

Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration...
The Ultimate Teen Book Guide
AuthorDaniel Hahn
ISBN0802797318
Stuck for something to read? Whether you're searching for a book to blow your mind and change your life, or just a light read for the beach, The Ultimate Teen Book Guide is the perfect place to start.

The book includes recommendations from teen reviewers and your favorite authors—over 700...
Hoyle's Rules of Games
AuthorAlbert H. Morehead
ISBN0451163095
In 1742, Edmond Hoyle published the definitive book on whist, the most popular card game of his day.

More than 250 years later, Hoyle is still the definitive name when it comes to the rules of games, from bridge to backgammon, Scrabble to blackjack. This handy reference guide has now been updated...
Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads Into Street Couture
AuthorMelissa Alvarado
It's time to get subversive, again! The downtown divas of "Sew Subversive" are back with another happy helping of straightlaced sewing advice for stylish results every time. Transform tacky bridesmaid gowns and pleated pants into picture-perfect tops, skirts and accessories. The two Melissas...
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