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      Great British Wit

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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...

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      Product ID:9780091906313
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Great British Wit
      Authors:Author: Rosemarie Jarski
      Page Count:464
      Subjects:Quotations, proverbs and sayings, Dictionaries of quotations, Humour collections and anthologies, Humour collections & anthologies, England
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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.


      Imprint Name:Ebury Press
      Publisher Name:Ebury Publishing
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2005-11-03

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      Weight498 g
      Dimensions198 × 149 × 35 mm