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Two Girls, One on Each Knee

- The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword
Af: Alan Connor Engelsk Paperback

Two Girls, One on Each Knee

- The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword
Af: Alan Connor Engelsk Paperback
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In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world''s most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. From the beaches of D-Day to the imaginary worlds of three-dimensional crosswords, to the British school teachers and journalists who turned the form into the fiendish sport it is today, encompassing the most challenging clues, particular tricks, the world''s greatest setters and famous solvers, PG Wodehouse and the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition, this is an ingenious book for lovers of this very particular form of wordplay.
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In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world''s most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and frustration of setting and solving puzzles. From the beaches of D-Day to the imaginary worlds of three-dimensional crosswords, to the British school teachers and journalists who turned the form into the fiendish sport it is today, encompassing the most challenging clues, particular tricks, the world''s greatest setters and famous solvers, PG Wodehouse and the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition, this is an ingenious book for lovers of this very particular form of wordplay.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780141977102
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0141977108
Udg. Dato: 5 jun 2014
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 5 jun 2014
Forfatter(e): Alan Connor
Forfatter(e) Alan Connor


Kategori Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie


ISBN-13 9780141977102


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 129mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 5 jun 2014


Oplagsdato 5 jun 2014


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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