1066 & All That
Since its publication in October of 1930, this classic spoof on textbook history has sold four million copies worldwide and has itself become a part of humor history. This anniversary edition is a celebration of this uproarious satire's lingering appeal and is enhanced by brilliant new drawings...
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Since its publication in October of 1930, this classic spoof on textbook history has sold four million copies worldwide and has itself become a part of humor history. This anniversary edition is a celebration of this uproarious satire's lingering appeal and is enhanced by brilliant new drawings by cartoonist Stephen Appleby.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780413775276 (0413775275)
Publish date: September 1st 2006
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Pages no: 172
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Medieval,
European History
Funny, requires quite good knowledge of British history.
A short and amusing volume of all the English history you will ever need to remember, and a clever dig at how history used to be taught in schools. The more up you are on your English history, the more you will appreciate and enjoy it. Some of the one liners are very funny. I laughed out loud lot...
Having recently read extracts from Jane Austen's teenage satirical work The History of England, I thought it was time to re-visit this classic work, first published in 1930. Jane Austen's work on the same theme reminded me of how much I had enjoyed reading this book more than thirty years ago. It is...
Things this book doesn't explain about England.(1) Fishfingers in a white bread roll. Not so much that they exist as they pass for nutrition.(2) First class on trains being quite often cheaper than economy.(3) The help I get in the Underground with my bag. And yet my niece with her baby in a pram ge...
Along the lines of American humor columnist Dave Barry's Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United Statesor Jane Austen's The History of England,its flippant attitude and often satirical tone are amusing, but in the end both Barry and Austen created more amusing and substantial works.
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