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His conceptions were ardent but ludicrous, and his memory, aided, as he honestly acknowledged, by his invention, was an inexhaustible fund of entertainment.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
In the Dictionary, Johnson combined deep scholarship, sharp stylistic writing, a strong moral code and his vast reading across many disciplines to create a unique, inventive, useful, serious and entertaining book.
Henry Oliver • Second Act
To the directors of the London Company they were ‘Peter Floris’ and ‘Lucas Antheuniss’ and their offer was in the nature of a rather intriguing proposal.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
didn’t know Lee Adams or his family, but as far as we were concerned, after Johnny Appleseed (who had lived briefly in our town), he was the most famous person to have emerged from Mansfield.
James Lapine • Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
venerated
John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
humbuggery)
John Wray • The Lost Time Accidents: A Novel
Hobson’s choice.