Aphorisms for the Uncommon Reader

William Melvin Gardner

Aphorisms for the Uncommon Reader
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Logica Books
Published
15 July 2020
Pages
158
ISBN
9780976187530

Aphorisms for the Uncommon Reader

William Melvin Gardner

A gift book organized into two parts:

Part I: 3300-word introduction that includes:

detailed examination of this most concise form of the literary arts. differentiation of aphorisms from adages, epigrams, maxims, platitudes, and other types of quotable assertions. profiles of the most prolific modern aphorists (e.g., Ambrose Bierce, Antonio Porchia, Eric Hoffer, Stanislaw Lec, James Richardson, James Guida, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and others).

Part II: 400 original aphorisms, with twenty-five B/W original illustrations.

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