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Literary Blunders (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Name: Literary Blunders (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Author: Henry B. Wheatley
ISBN: 9781411455436

by Henry B. Wheatley

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Overview

Taking a page from a character’s project in a Bulwer Lytton novel, the author, a distinguished Victorian man of letters, presents an amusing compendium of errata, misprints, misquotations, mistranslations, imaginings, absurd etymologies, faulty classifications, abuses of upper and lower case, ludicrous student answers to exams, hotel-keepers’ English, and more.

Synopsis

Taking a page from a character's project in a Bulwer Lytton novel, the author, a distinguished Victorian man of letters, presents an amusing compendium of errata, misprints, misquotations, mistranslations, imaginings, absurd etymologies, faulty classifications, abuses of upper and lower case, ludicrous student answers to exams, hotel-keepers' English, and more.

About the Author, Henry B. Wheatley

Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917) was a British author, indexer, and editor. He served as the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts, and the President of both the Samuel Pepys Club and the Bibliographical Society. His works include The Bibliographer (1884), What is an Index? (1878), and Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In (1889).