Illustrations by Tullio Pericoli. A lively collection of classic zingers from the mouths and pens of authors. "Who's better at being nasty than writers on other writers?"--The New York Times Magazine. A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB and WRITER'S DIGEST BOOK CLUB selection. Illustrations by Tullio Pericoli
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"The power of imagination in service to slander can steal the breath away." -- USA Today
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James Charlton is the compiler and editor of many books, including The Writer's Quotation Book, The Writer's Home Companion, and Bred Any Good Rooks Lately? He lives in New York City.
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This Book is Screamingly Funny! (Catty, Yes--but Funny!),
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This review is from: Fighting Words: Writers Lambast Other Writers--From Aristotle to Anne Rice (Hardcover)
James Charlton's marvelously wicked collection of the cattiest, sharpest, wittiest criticisms of writers by writers is a hoot! The book is chocked to the brim with quote after quote of brilliantly crafted--if barbarous--quips about some of our most celebrated writers. If you've ever wondered what was so great about a particular author, you're not alone!You'll laugh a lot (and often wince) when you read this book. There's hardly a dull quotation!
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This review is from: Fighting Words: Writers Lambast Other Writers--From Aristotle to Anne Rice (Hardcover)
I was almost happy to see how little this terrific book sells for; now I get to hang on to my copy of it! How can so many book readers resist "over 400 put-downs, backbites, & civil leers from the poisoned pens pens of great writers"? Snap it up!
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Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Mark Twain, Edmund Wilson, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, George Moore, James Joyce, Truman Capote, Evelyn Waugh, Lord Byron, Carl Sandburg, Edith Sitwell, Thomas Carlyle, William Shakespeare, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Wolfe, Bret Harte, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Philip Roth New!
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Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Mark Twain, Edmund Wilson, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, George Moore, James Joyce, Truman Capote, Evelyn Waugh, Lord Byron, Carl Sandburg, Edith Sitwell, Thomas Carlyle, William Shakespeare, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Wolfe, Bret Harte, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Philip Roth New!
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- Joseph Conrad by Ford Madox Ford on page 56, and page 57
- Robert Browning by K. G. Chesterton on page 28
- George Orwell by Raymond Williams on page 116
- War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy on page 36
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald on page 97
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