Biography for Beginners: Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the use of Upper Forms

By E.C. Bentley and G K 1874-1936 Chesterton

Book Overview

The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about Chaps.
With these rhyming lines, English novelist and humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley introduces this book and an unusual form of verse of his own invention. Bentley's four-line poems, known as "clerihews," offer satirical views of historical figures, from Edward the Confessor and Odo of Bayeux to Sir Walter Raleigh, Jane Austen, Karl Marx, Theodore Roosevelt, and many others. The witty verses are accompanied by the book's outstanding feature: whimsical full-page illustrations by G. K. Chesterton.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486780562
• ISBN13: 9780486780566
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"