Great British Wit - The Greatest Assembly of British wit and Humour Ever ...

Informationen zum Autor Rosemarie Jarski Klappentext Arranged thematically--from Class and Character, Sex and Snobbery, to the Foreigner's Eye View--here is the definitive collection of the British nation's funniest quotations. Among the many great and good who dazzle us with their wit are Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Billy Connolly, Quentin Crisp, Roald Dahl, John Lennon, Queen Victoria, and Oscar Wilde. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemarie Jarski, Jarski Rosemarie
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.2005
• EAN: 9780091906313
• ISBN: 978-0-09-190631-3
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 202 mm x 32 mm
• Series: EBURY PRESS
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; England, HUMOR / General, REFERENCE / Quotations, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Humour collections and anthologies, Dictionaries Of Quotations, Quotations, proverbs and sayings