Edgar Wilson Nye

American journalist and humorist (1850-1896)

Died in Arden

journalist, humorist, writer

Quotations with a citation

There is a grim and ghastly humor -- the humor that is born of a pathetic philosophy -- which now and then strikes me in reading the bright and keen-witted work of our American paragraphers. It is a humor that may be crystallized by hunger and sorrow and tears. It is not found elsewhere as it is in America. It is out of the question in England, because an Englishman cannot poke fun at himself. He cannot joke about an empty flour-barrel. We can: especially if by doing it we may swap the joke for another barrel of flour. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

In the libraries

Open Library Bill Nye's History of the United States · 1894 View library record ↗ Open Library Bill Nye's red book · 1891 View library record ↗ Open Library Comic History of England · 2004 View library record ↗ Open Library Forty Liars and Other Lies · 1882 View library record ↗ Open Library Mark Twain's Library of Humor · 1888 View library record ↗ Open Library Remarks · 1886 View library record ↗

Read Edgar Wilson Nye

Mark Twain's Library of Humor 1888 Find a copy Remarks 1886 Find a copy Bill Nye's History of the United States 1894 Find a copy Comic History of England 2004 Find a copy Bill Nye's red book 1891 Find a copy Forty Liars and Other Lies 1882 Find a copy

Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.