Great British Wit

Rosemarie Jarski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2005
Ebury Press (Verlag)
978-0-09-190631-3 (ISBN)

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Thematically covering every subject imaginable, from God to dogs, this work is a seminal gathering of British wit. Among others, featured in it are George Mikes Jane Austen, Pam Ayres, Alan Bennett, Jeffrey Bernard, John Betjeman, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, and Peter Cook.

There's nothing much left to feel good about these days if you're British, but one of the few things where we all agree that we're still a world leader is our defining sense of humour. Thematically covering every subject imaginable, from God to dogs, this collection is the seminal gathering of our national wit and a picture of who we are as a nation - a monument to our monumental silliness.

'An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.' George Mikes

Jane Austen, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Stephen Fry, A.A. Gill, Boris Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Maureen Lipman, Spike Milligan, Eric Morecambe, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Skinner, Sue Townsend, Peter Ustinov, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Victoria Wood and many more.

Rosemarie Jarski has spent half a lifetime collecting quotes and possesses an astounding breadth of knowledge when it comes to compiling quotations, as her numerous bestselling books testify. She is also a successful screenwriter and spends time working in the UK and USA.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.11.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 202 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
ISBN-10	0-09-190631-8 / 0091906318
ISBN-13	978-0-09-190631-3 / 9780091906313
Zustand	Neuware