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The decline and fall of practically everybody / by Will Cuppy ; edited by Fred Feldkamp ; with drawings by William Steig.
LIBRA - Special PN6161 .C787 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cuppy, Will, 1884-1949
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World history--Humor.
- World history.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metro Books, 2002.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by the editor
- Part 1. It seems there were two Egyptians. Cheops, or Khufu
- Hatshepsut
- Part 2. Ancient Greeks and worse. Pericles
- Alexander the Great
- Hannibal
- Cleopatra
- Nero
- Part 3. Strange bedfellows. Attila the Hun
- Charlemagne
- Lady Godiva
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Philip the Sap
- Part 4. A few greats. Louis XIV
- Madame du Barry
- Peter the Great
- Catherine the Great
- Frederick the Great
- Part 5. Merrie England. William the Conqueror
- Henry VIII
- Elizabeth
- George III
- Part 6. Now we're getting somewhere. Leif the Lucky
- Christopher Columbus
- Montezuma
- Captain John Smith
- Miles Standish
- Part 7. They all had their fun. Some royal pranks
- Some royal stomachs.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 51798613
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