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Other editions of book Elmo's Humorous Speaker: Uniform With "Elmo's Model Speaker," "Elmo's Children's Speaker," and "Two Thousand and Ten Choice Quotations"

  • Elmo's Humorous Speaker: Uniform With "Elmo's Model Speaker," "Elmo's Children's Speaker," and "Two Thousand and Ten Choice Quotations"

    Thomas W. Handford

    Paperback (Forgotten Books, Jan. 29, 2019)
    Excerpt from Elmo's Humorous Speaker: Uniform With "Elmo's Model Speaker," "Elmo's Children's Speaker," and "Two Thousand and Ten Choice Quotations"It is hardly needful to say that between the gen uinely humorous and the merely comic, there is awide and impassable gulf. Clowns and buffoons - whether professional or otherwise - revel in the comic and grow uproarious in the outrages of burlesque; but they would find the realms Of the humorous dull and uninviting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
  • Elmo's Humorous Speaker: Uniform With "Elmo's Model Speaker," "Elmo's Children's Speaker," and "Two Thousand and Ten Choice Quotations"

    Thomas W. Handford

    Hardcover (Forgotten Books, March 22, 2018)
    Excerpt from Elmo's Humorous Speaker: Uniform With "Elmo's Model Speaker," "Elmo's Children's Speaker," and "Two Thousand and Ten Choice Quotations"It is hardly needful to say that between the gen uinely humorous and the merely comic, there is awide and impassable gulf. Clowns and buffoons - whether professional or otherwise - revel in the comic and grow uproarious in the outrages of burlesque; but they would find the realms Of the humorous dull and uninviting.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.