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(Message started by: helenislovely on Dec 21^st, 2005, 10:19am)

Title: History of Riddles
Post by helenislovely on Dec 21^st, 2005, 10:19am

I posted this in the wrong place before - doh
While I have lots of great books listing riddles from logic puzzles to maths, I am really looking for a book which discusses the history and context of riddles. Something with examples from the sphinx through Anglo-Saxon poetic word play on to current lateral thinking web and newspaper puzzles. I've done various google/ amazon searches but can't seem to find anything general/ for the lay reader. Anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks

Title: Re: History of Riddles
Post by towr on Dec 21^st, 2005, 3:48pm

Maybe
Riddles: Ancient and Modern (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0911745505/qid=1135208636/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-0108403-2852918?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)
Dictionary of Riddles (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415026768/qid=1135208636/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/102-0108403-2852918?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)
They're the closest thing I found so far googling. Unfortunately neither are readily available anymore (although perhaps you can find either in a library)

Title: Re: History of Riddles
Post by helenislovely on Dec 22^nd, 2005, 1:44am

Thanks Towr, you're fab.
The first one looks like the one for me and there's a second hand copy available on uk amazon. Also searching with a name helped more than the frustrating results I was getting on 'history' and led me to this:
http://www.wgbh.org/pages/pri/spirit/shows/087bibl.html
(Just in case you are interested as well as being helpful!)
Now I just have to source all the books on that site...

Title: Re: History of Riddles
Post by towr on Dec 22^nd, 2005, 2:04am

Hehe, that was one fo the first sites I found, and based on that I searched amazon for "mark bryant" ;D

Title: Re: History of Riddles
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jan 20^th, 2006, 6:35am

Here is a chronology:

http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/singmast/recchron.html