Series Meaning of Liff

Series authors: Douglas Adams, John Lloyd

6 Works Popularity 4,311 (2,819 Members) 3,503 Books 47 Reviews ½ 3.8
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The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams 1,579 copies, 20 reviews1
The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams 1,725 copies, 20 reviews2
Afterliff by John Lloyd 99 copies, 2 reviews3
The Yorkshire Meaning of Liff by Joe Moorwood 10 copies, 2 reviews4

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Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book by Douglas Adams 53 copies, 1 reviewofficial supplement, pp. 121–125 and 133
The Meaning of Liff / The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams 38 copies, 2 reviewsomnibus 1-2

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Humorous definitions, re-using place names as the headwords. The original Meaning of Liff (1983) contains around 500 of these. The six-page supplement contained in the Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (1986) consisted of around 100 new definitions. Most (but not all) of these found their way into The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), not a sequel but an expansion of the original, in that it contains all the words from the original, plus a significant proportion of new ones. (English, Unclassified)

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