In Search Of The World's Worst Writers is a Celebration of Triumphantly Bad Literature.
This is a celebration of bad writing, a journey into the lives of writers so wonderfully awful, they have unwittingly arrived at genius from the other direction.
The book includes poems, plays, novels, and even travel guides - all so wonderfully appalling they have achieved a kind of greatness. The writers range from all walks of life, from Duchesses to Potato Salesmen, and come from a wide variety of nationalities, with British, American, Canadian, French, Russian and Portuguese writers all featured.
All the writers are given a star-rating ranging from one-star ('Generally a dull writer with a few inspired moments of true badness') to four-stars ('The grand cru of awful writing').
Those featured include:
Solyman Brown and his epic poem on dental hygiene
Julia Moore, America's best worst poet
Shepherd M. Dugger who managed to combine a travel guide with a romantic novel
Samuel Wesley who wrote poems such as On a Cow's Tail and 'A Supper of Stinking Ducks'
William MacGonagall - probably the worst poet ever
Rev. Walter Reynolds, whose play was so bad audiences flocked to see it
Joseph Gwyer - self appointed poet laureate and potato salesman
James McIntyre, a Canadian writer whose poems were mainly about cheese
Sir Thomas Urquhart - inventor of completely new words and writer of incomprehensible maths books
James Grainger - whose major poem, The Sugar Cane, was largely about manure
Pedro Carolino, whose attempts to write a Portuguese-English phrasebook was hampered only by his complete lack of knowledge of the English language
Amanda McKittrick Ros - author of Irene Iddlesleigh, Delina Delaney and other masterpieces of bad novel writing.
These and many more bizarre, fascinating, hilariously bad authors can be found in the pages of the book.
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