Wit & Epigram: The whole joke in a single line

The art of the perfect one-liner — Wilde’s paradoxes, Bierce’s definitions, Shaw’s ripostes — wisdom sharpened to a point.

In this collection

• Louis Napoleon
• A Retort
• Three and One are One
• To a Dejected Poet
• A Bequest to Music
• The Highwayman and the Traveller
• The Baker's Dozen
• A Pickbrain
• The Gospel According to Walt Whitman
• Substance Versus Shadow
• Henry the Fourth_ at Oxford
• Wasted Sweets
• The Story of St. Vespaluus
• A Wireless Message
• Was Jesus a Martyr?
• A Soaring Toad
• You Never Can Tell
• At Large One Temper
• From Top to Bottom
• Education
• A Silurian Holiday
• A Dilemma
• Ogres
• The Cynic's Bequest
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