Marx & Lennon

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Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings
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Authorn/a (edited by Joey Green)
LanguageEnglish
Genre Humor
Publisher Hyperion (publisher)
Publication date
2005
Publication placeUnited States
Media type Paperback
ISBN 1-4013-0809-0
OCLC 62163184
LC Class PN6084.H8 M27 2005

Marx & Lennon: The Parallel Sayings is an anthology of 400 humorous quotes from John Lennon and Groucho Marx on a variety of themes. The book's title is a humorous reference to Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Quotations are thematically collected in such a way that the top section of a page contains Marx's quotes, and the bottom section contains Lennon's. The book is edited by Joey Green and includes an introduction by Arthur Marx and a foreword by Yoko Ono. Including the index, it is 254 pages long.

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