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- catalog abstract "Anecdotes are stories with points. They are tools -- nail-sinkers to drive home arguments firmly. In their old form they were known as parables. By means of them Jesus Christ taught. So the Greek slave, Aesop, sagely propounded his fables. Today the true anecdote is still the counterpart of the parable and fable. Time has tended to shorten it somewhat and, as an attribute of our temperament, we have made it often funny. The majority of the anecdotes in this book are humorous. Many are serious and thoughtful. All prove something. The thing to remember is, many jokes are anecdotes but not all anecdotes are jokes. - Introduction.".
- catalog contributor b7118625.
- catalog created "c1942.".
- catalog date "1942".
- catalog date "c1942.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1942.".
- catalog description "Anecdotes are stories with points. They are tools -- nail-sinkers to drive home arguments firmly. In their old form they were known as parables. By means of them Jesus Christ taught. So the Greek slave, Aesop, sagely propounded his fables. Today the true anecdote is still the counterpart of the parable and fable. Time has tended to shorten it somewhat and, as an attribute of our temperament, we have made it often funny. The majority of the anecdotes in this book are humorous. Many are serious and thoughtful. All prove something. The thing to remember is, many jokes are anecdotes but not all anecdotes are jokes. - Introduction.".
- catalog extent "xv, 489 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Thesaurus of anecdotes.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Thesaurus of anecdotes.".
- catalog issued "1942".
- catalog issued "c1942.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Crown Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Thesaurus of anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "808.8".
- catalog subject "Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "PN6261 .F8".
- catalog title "Thesaurus of anecdotes / edited by Edmund Fuller ; a new classified collection of the best anecdotes from ancient times to the present day.".
- catalog type "text".