{"first_publish_date": "1997", "title": "The clan of the flapdragon and other adventures in etymology", "covers": [1552377], "lc_classifications": ["P106 .M3745 1997"], "key": "/works/OL3347142W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL543069A"}}], "dewey_number": ["412/.0207"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Humor", "Language and languages", "Wit and humor", "Humor, general"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "These adventurous essays include lampoons on writing, language, and literature, and the collection is a delightful spoof of much in contemporary culture - especially areas of intellectual pretension. Readers will be entertained by anachronistic allusions, improbable parodies, whimsical etymologies, tongue-in-cheek word play, and stunning purple prose - examples of just some of the liberties Schrapnel takes with the language.\n\nThe eccentric Dr. Schrapnel includes a variety of audience reactions in the form of bogus letters from fictional readers, confirming that language and literature are everyone's business."}, "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T03:20:39.564551"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-12T10:28:53.299549"}}