The Classics Reclassified

by Richard Armour, Richard Armour

Hilarious Summaries of books such as The Iliad, Julius Caesar, David Copperfield,each take-off starts with a short biography of the work's author in the same style. For Shakespeare, it says he "was baptized April 26, 1564. When he was born is disputed, but anyone who argues that it was after this date is just being difficult."

146 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1967

About the author

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.

Reviews

[Andrew Linsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great twist on a study aid that drips dry comedy in every paragraph ( and footnote).