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Fun: Spies, Puzzle Solvers and a Century of Crosswords


  • SelfMadeHero
  • by Paolo Bacilieri
In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history. It appeared in their Sunday supplement, 'Fun'. A century on, 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.

ISBN 9781910593257 | E | HB
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Publisher SelfMadeHero
ISBN 9781910593257
Author(s) Paolo Bacilieri
Publication date April 2017
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 260 x 190 mm
Illustrations throughout bw.ill.
Pages 296
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history. It appeared in their Sunday supplement, 'Fun'. A century on, 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?