by Will Cuppy · Nonpareil Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780879235147
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«The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody» is Will Cuppy's humorous essay, published by Nonpareil Books in paperback (242 pages, in English).
A satirical tour of world history through portraits of figures such as Cleopatra, Nero, Alexander the Great, Lady Godiva and Henry VIII. With humour and documentary rigour, Will Cuppy dismantles the heroic stature of these characters and presents them as ordinary, fallible and contradictory beings.
The work was left unfinished at Will Cuppy's death in 1949 and Fred Feldkamp completed it from his notes; it was first published in 1950. Includes drawings by William Steig.
For readers seeking a fun, light-hearted approach to history, and for those who appreciate classic American satirical humour.
