Remembrance of Letters Past: Famous Authors - Fake Letters & Other Parodies, by Robert Ambros
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A humorous look at classic literature in a collection of fictitious letters and other parodies. Letters never intended. Letters never written. But what would a letter of recommendation from Fyodor Dostoevsky look like? Would you want one? What would a letter of complaint from Marcel Proust to his fruit vendor look like? How did Ayn Rand react to hate mail? How would Mark Twain react to blackmail? How did Emerson react when he saw the state Walden was in after Thoreau left? These and other important questions are answered in this timeless collection of thirty six parodies.
Remembrance of Letters Past: Famous Authors - Fake Letters & Other Parodies, by Robert Ambros- Amazon Sales Rank: #1168800 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-18
- Released on: 2015-07-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review Remembrance of Letters Past: Famous Authors Fake Letters and Other Parodies displays the finer art of parody at its best, and uses the style and approaches of Poe, Hemingway, Twain, Proust, and other famous writers to provide short pieces that are hilarious and unexpected. These works take the form of letters and notes to the various authors - but don't expect serious exchanges: these are parodies and thus presume a basic, prior familiarity with the authors and their works. Ergo, Mark Twain refutes a lawyer's extortion attempt by conjuring up a spirit's accusation on a snake oil remedy's devastating effects, Oscar Wilde's discussion with a jewelry store over a gem's mis-delivery turns increasingly hostile, and Melville's publisher expresses consternation that Twain's 'Jumping Frog' is somehow overselling his esteemed Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. These are wonderful parodies which go to great lengths to successfully adopt the style and attitude of each writer. While general-interest readers could fail to fully appreciate the tongue-in-cheek approach of Remembrance of Letters Past, it's the student of literature (from high school through college levels) who will find the approach simply delightful, offering much rollicking laughter and food for literary thought. D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
About the Author Robert Ambros is the recipient of the 2002 Writer's Digest International Book Award for best genre fiction.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Delightful parodies but needs active TOC By vbh48 This book is a delightful collection of letters and emails that could have been written to, by, or about a number of authors and some of the characters they created.I especially loved the letters to the editor of the Ladies Home Journal regarding a controversial article written by Ayn Rand; Ayn Rand's letter to Stanley Kubrick; Mark Twain's correspondence with his editor and a lawyer regarding a con man's attempt to involve the author in promoting his suspicious elixir; and Franz Kafka's letter to his overbearing father who ruined Franz's early dreams of becoming a ventriloquist.Another of my favorite parodies was the Charles Dickens' correspondence. We have email, Facebook, and twitter to help us procrastinate from and avoid getting down to our daily work. Dickens writes ten letters (to his wife, fans, friends, publishers, and ghost writers) before breakfast.From Hemingway, to Shakespeare, to Proust, to Wilde, the concept of the fake letters is inspired and the delivery hilarious.About the book's formatting: It's swell that "Enhanced Typesetting is Enabled" and the book has a listing of its "chapters". But how can you find the letters you love most and want to read aloud to your friends? Digital books can (and should) have ACTIVE tables of contents. Five stars for the book. Three stars for the useless table of contents.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great Read By LUCY Totally irreverent and very funny - found myself laughing out loud on bus during my commute. The author manages to co-mingle current pop culture into the lifestyles of the greatest authors of all time, such as Jane Austen's vocabulary after a summer at the Jersey shore. Even if you're not familiar with every author mentioned, the writing and absurdity of the letters is genius. (Literature snobs - enjoy!)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Funny parody for those who know literature By A. Streeter This book is quite humorous if you know the classical literary artists. I would recommend this to those who are well read.
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