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The decline and fall of practically everybody / edited by Fred Feldkamp. Drawings by William Steig.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cuppy, Will, 1884-1949
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American wit and humor.
- Biographical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Holt, [1950]
- Contents:
- Part 1: It seems there were two Egyptians
- Cheops, or Khufu
- Hatshepsut
- Part II: Ancient Greeks and worse
- Pericles
- Alexander the Great
- Hannibal
- Cleopatra
- Nero
- Part III: Strange bedfellows
- Attila the Hun
- Charlemagne
- Lady Godiva
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Philip the Sap
- Part IV: A few greats
- Louis XIV
- Madame du Barry
- Peter the Great
- Catherine the Great
- Frederick the Great
- Part V: Merrie England
- William the Conqueror
- Henry VIII
- Elizabeth
- George III
- Part VI: Now we're getting somewhere
- Leif the lucky
- Christopher Columbus
- Montezuma
- Captain John Smith
- Miles Standish
- Part VII: They all had their fun
- Some royal pranks
- Some royal stomachs.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cuppy, Will, 1884-1949. Decline and fall of practically everybody.
- OCLC:
- 309974
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