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Lädt ... Great British Wit: The Greatest Assembly of British Wit and Humour Ever (2005. Auflage)von Rosemarie Jarski
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. My daughter found this in a secondhand bookshop and gave it to me for Christmas. This is a mixture of 'wit' and outright jokes, and the sort of book you dip into now and again. There are many quotations by Churchill, usually being outrageously rude, side by side with jokes by Jimmy Carr. It's divided into topics, so you can locate ones you want to read aloud to family members. ( ) It's always hard to review this type of book. I suppose all I can say is that it does everything you would expect of it. Rosemarie Jarski's editorship commendably confines itself to a rather enjoyable introduction and to organising the quotes by topic; the overall presentation is quite pleasant. The collections of quotations are varied (both in age and provenance) and are – yes – funny. I was laughing aloud quite frequently (thus abandoning my natural British reserve – sidenote: isn't it terribly British to feel embarrassed at laughing aloud in an empty house?). And to be honest, for all our other qualities and achievements, what we value most in this country is our sense of humour. Great British Wit reminds us that, despite our most recent contributions to the world being the ghastliness of reality TV and of Piers Morgan (both of which I suppose you could write off as a sick joke gone wrong), that humour is still alive and kicking. This collection of brief quotations from both serious and extremely funny Brits is a great pick it up and put it down book. I found I could onlyread about 20 pages before I tired of the format, but they were a great20 pages, and I found myself returning to it day after day for those brief doses. From monarchy to football to the Empire, these Brits encapsulate the wonders, horrors and peculiarities of British life. And nobody does dry wit like a Brit. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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 will be 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, Pam Ayres, Alan Bennett, Jeffrey Bernard, John Betjeman, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Noel Coward, Quentin Crisp, Les Dawson, Stephen Fry, A.A. Gill, Stella Gibbons, W.S. Gilbert, Joyce Grenfell, Tony Hancock, Harry Hill, Jerome K. Jerome, Boris Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Maureen Lipman, Spike Milligan, Nancy Mitford, Frank Muir, Eric Morecambe, Joe Orton, David Renwick, Brian Sewell, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Edith Sitwell, Frank Skinner, Arthur Smith, Sue Townsend, Peter Ustinov, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Kenneth Williams, P.G. Wodehouse, Victoria Wood. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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