Richard Lederer: 23 books
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements...
Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr....
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
What fictional detective survived an attempted murder by his creator? (Sherlock Holmes)
Who was the single mother, living on state benefits, whose wizardly series of novels has made her the richest writer in England? (J. K. Rowling)
Which American poet composed and read a poem at John F. Kennedy's...
by Richard Lederer, Caroline McCullagh
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Just How Much Do You Know About Our Great Nation?
Recent surveys reveal that more Americans can name at least two members of the Simpsons’ cartoon family than can name the first four American presidents in order. Richard Lederer and Caroline McCullagh have written the American Trivia Quiz...
Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay
Practical Advice For The Grammatically Challenged
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
For years Richard Lederer has enthralled fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty presentation. Now Lederer has teamed up with Richard Dowis to take readers on another journey through the world's most wonderful, albeit perplexing, language. How many times...
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Richard Lederer offers readers more of the irrepressible wordplay and linguistic high jinks his fans can't get enough of, along with observations on a life in letters. From an inner-city classroom to a wordy weekend retreat, from centuries-old etymological...
Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia
from Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
What biblical character said, "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Cain)
Who was the chief of the ancient Greek gods? (Zeus)
Shakespeare's plays are generally classified into which three categories? (tragedies, comedies, and histories)
Word Wizard
Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
After a multi-decade career of stimulating readers to appreciate and laugh at the glories and oddities of our English language, beloved language maven Richard Lederer has collected his very best and most popular pieces in Word Wizard. In this career-capping anthology the reader will find essays that...
Comma Sense
A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and...
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest...
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Presidential Trivia: The Feats, Fates, Families, Foibles, and Firsts of Our American Presidents Revised and Updated from the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book—Presidential Trivia. In it you’ll find all the detailsabout the lives of the United States presidents. It answers...
The Bride of Anguished English
A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
For years wordsmith and punster Richard Lederer has charmed and delighted fans with his bestselling "Anguished English" series. In his funniest book yet, readers will again cherish the author's latest chronicle of the goofs and gaffes and fluffs and flubs of our anguished language. And the...
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A freshly updated look at everything you never knew you wanted to know about our country’s illustrious line of commanders in chief—updated to include fascinating facts on our brand new 45th president, Donald Trump.
You’ll find more than 1,000 fun and engaging facts in this book about...
The Cunning Linguist
Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Have some fun with your native tongue!
In The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows us the naughtier side of wordplay, revealing hundreds of hilarious, ingenious, unabashed, and adults-only puns, jokes, limericks, one-liners, and other adventures in sexual humor....
by Richard Lederer
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
With fascinating etymologies and letter patterns of more than 400 everyday words, bestselling language writer Richard Lederer offers insights into the most bedazzling, beguiling, and bewitching words in the English language. Readers will discover why William Shakespeare may be hiding in the Old Testament;...
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