Biography For Beginners (Paperback)

from thornton37814

Although this short book has been around for a long time, it is now being republished by Dover Publications. It consists of "biographies" of persons written in four lines of rhyming verse. The biographies generally focus on only one thing about each person. The illustrations are drawings done by ...

from datrappert

This is a short, somewhat clever but mostly peculiar collection of poems by E.C. Bentley with nice illustrations by his friend G.K. Chesterton. Unfortunately, after so many years, many of the personages so honored have passed from the collective memory!

from MarthaJeanne

If you want to read this, it is available from Gutenberg, so don't waste money on it. A few of the rhymes are good, and as for the others, at least the book is short.

from DavidWineberg

Possibly the easiest book to read, Biography for Beginners consists of a four line ditty describing the identifying bent of some famous man, plus a caricature by GK Chesterton, illustrating that trait. It is whimsical but accurate, in the nature of better political cartoons. The subjects tend to ...