Cupid's Cyclopedia

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Satire, Humorous Fiction

Authors: Oliver Herford, John Cecil Clay In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Cupid's Cyclopedia

Author's Note
Letters A - Z
Amoria

This 1910 short work is by the English-born American humorist, satirist, and illustrator Oliver Herford, aided by another caricaturist and illustrator, John Cecil Clay. Herford’s books were usually short and quite popular in their time. He is a master of the witty remark and joke, i.e., “Many are called but few get up” and “Only the young die good”. Cupid’s Cyclopedia is a jesting alphabetical list of words and their definitions dealing with the course of true love; the book closes with an essay on the same subject entitled “Amoria,” a tongue-in-cheek imaginative travelogue on “the most ancient and honorable country upon the earth’s surface.” The text has many illustrations that make the author’s thoughts more entertaining and often clearer. There is an appendix, but the text indicates that it has been removed. (Summary by David Wales)