num_pages: 307
description: "...features over 1000 stories arranged alphabetically under 400 subject headings. The index provides further subject access, particularly to the people (usually famous) referred to in the stories...Rees...uses his years of lexicological experience to good effect, augmenting his pithy, humorous renditions of the stories with footnotes examining versions attributed to other people."--Library Journal. 
language: English
title: The Cassell Dictionary of Anecdotes: 1000 Entertaining Anecdotes on Themes as Diverse as Fame, Flattery and Forgetfulness
titlecomplete: The Cassell Dictionary of Anecdotes: 1000 Entertaining Anecdotes on Themes as Diverse as Fame, Flattery and Forgetfulness
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Cassell