Instant Lives and More

By Howard Moss

Book Overview

This humorous little book provides brief mock biographies of famous writers, artists and musicians: Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, the Brontes, Vittore Carpaccio, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Sergei Eisenstein, Ford Madox Ford, Paul Gauguin, El Greco, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, James Joyce, Zoltan Kodaly, T.E. Lawrence, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Somerset Maugham, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anna Pavlova, Marcel Proust, Camille Saint-Saens, Sappho, Augustin Eugene Scribe, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Gertrude Stein, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Jan Van Eyck, and Oscar Wilde. Illustrated by Edward Gorey.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880010762
• ISBN13: 9780880010764
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Lit-Wit at its BEST

Instant Lives features 36 remarkable parodies of famous artists (writers, musicians, artists) -- everyone from Austen to Huxley to Gauguin to Mozart. Every chapter overflows with dry wit mixed with a deep understanding of the artists portrayed. Highly recommend.