FUN : Spies, Puzzle Solvers and a Century of Crosswords Hardback
by Paolo Bacilieri
Hardback
Description
In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history.
It appeared in their Sunday supplement, “Fun.” A century later, this absorbing puzzle continues to attract (and infuriate) millions of devotees every day.
But the world’s most popular—and seemingly mundane—pastime has a surprising history, filled with intrigue and adventure. Paolo Bacilieri’s FUN transports us from turn-of-the-century New York to present-day Milan, taking in stories of ingenious puzzle makers, ardent solvers, and intellectual luminaries.
Part detective story, part docudrama, and interlaced with a fiction of Bacilieri’s own imagining, FUN questions the crossword’s “harmless” status.
Sure, it’s fun—but could it also be a form of resistance, of cryptic communication, of espionage?
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages, Black and white and colour
- Publisher:SelfMadeHero
- Publication Date:20/04/2017
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- ISBN:9781910593257
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:296 pages, Black and white and colour
- Publisher:SelfMadeHero
- Publication Date:20/04/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781910593257