Name That List, #71
What is this a list of? The answer is below in extended.
Answer:
They're fake titles of books that Charles Dickens paid to have bound so he could display them on his bookshelf.
More info: harpers.org
- Five Minutes in China
- Forty Winks at the Pyramids
- Mr. Green's Overland Mail
- Toot's Universal Letter-Writer
- Downeaster's Complete Calculator
- History of the Middling Ages
- Captain Parry's Virtues of Cold Tar
- Kant's Ancient Humbugs
- Bowwowdom. A Poem.
- The Art of Cutting the Teeth
- On the Use of Mercury by the Ancient Poets
- Drowsy's Recollections of Nothing
- Heavyside's Conversations with Nobody
- Growler's Gruffiology, with Appendix
- Miss Biffin on Deportment
- Morrison's Pills Progress
- Lady Godiva on the Horse
- Hansard's Guide to Refreshing Sleep
Answer:
They're fake titles of books that Charles Dickens paid to have bound so he could display them on his bookshelf.
More info: harpers.org
Comments
I was going to guess Samuel Taylor Coleridge's works while on laudanum.
Then I realized there weren't many when he wasn't under the influence.
Then I realized there weren't many when he wasn't under the influence.
Posted by crc on 02/04/25 at 04:43 AM
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