Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces is everything you've heard it to be: masterfully, if maniacally, crafted, at times offensive, at times tender, poignant as hell, ferociously funny.

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Confederancy of Dunces is one of my all time favorites!

Another challenge! 2007

Confederacy of Dunces is quite a joke in our house.

Dueling Southern Authors ____Maggie 2007

At the head of the "Dunces" he placed poor Theobald, whom he accused of ingratitude, but whose real crime was supposed to be that of having revised Shakespeare more happily than himself.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

The 'Dunces' (for by this name they were called) held weekly clubs, to consult of hostilities against the author.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

Pope appears by this narrative to have contemplated his victory over the "Dunces" with great exultation; and such was his delight in the tumult which he had raised, that for a while his natural sensibility was suspended, and he read reproaches and invectives without emotion, considering them only as the necessary effects of that pain which he rejoiced in having given.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

The "Dunces" were yet smarting from the war, and the superiority which he publicly arrogated disposed the world to wish his humiliation.

Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

The "Dunces" were yet smarting from the war, and the superiority which he publicly arrogated disposed the world to wish his humiliation.

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson 1746

Pope appears by this narrative to have contemplated his victory over the "Dunces" with great exultation; and such was his delight in the tumult which he had raised, that for a while his natural sensibility was suspended, and he read reproaches and invectives without emotion, considering them only as the necessary effects of that pain which he rejoiced in having given.

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson 1746

The 'Dunces' (for by this name they were called) held weekly clubs, to consult of hostilities against the author.

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson 1746