Titles To Make You Smile: Fractured Fairy Tales (Part 1)



Beauty and the banknote : images of women on paper money / Virginia Hewitt. -- London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, c1994.
APD1498 / HG353 .H49 1994 / Green Library - Stacks.

Cinderella's housework dialectics : housework as the root of human creation / by Lela Meinhardt and Paul Meinhardt. -- 1st ed. -- Nutley, N.J. : Incunabula Press, 1977.
AEV5034 / HQ503 .M34 / Green Library - Stacks.

The emperor's new mind : concerning computers, minds, and the laws of physics / Roger Penrose. -- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
AHX9648 / Q335 .P415 1989 / Math Library.

Jack and the check book / by John Kendrick Bangs; illustrated by Albert Levering. -- New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1911.
AGZ9649 / PS1064 .B21 J32 1911 / Special Collections - Felton Collection.

Sleeping beauties : the Jerome L. Joss collection of African headrests at UCLA / by William J. Dewey ; with contributions by Toshiko M. McCallum, Jerome Feldman, Henrietta Cosentino. -- Los Angeles : Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, c1993.
APF9963 / NK9788.75 .D48 1993 / Art Library.

Note: the John Kendrick Bangs work is a collection, and the titles of the individual pieces therein are also worthy of note: "Jack and the check-book," "The great wish syndicate," "Puss, the promoter," "The golden fleece," "The invisible cloak," and "The return of Aladdin."

--submitted by Brian Kunde


Originally published in SUL News Notes, Volume 3, Number 44, December 2, 1994. These titles reflect the compiler's notions of the humorous, wry, ironic or unusual, and should not be construed as reflecting any other opinion or judgment, including the editorial opinion of the original publisher.



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