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Informationen zum Autor A. G. Macdonell! (1895-1941) was a journalist and satirical novelist. Without doubt his best-known work was England Their England! but the success of this overshadows his other books! many of which were classics in their own way. The Autobiography of a Cad must surely rank as one of the funniest books ever written and Lords and Masters is a cutting and hard-hitting satire with frightening prescience! foreseeing the Second World War as inevitable. His American trip in 1934 is amusingly related in A Visit to America! but his other non-fiction is also powerful and beautifully written! with his highly-regarded Napoleon and his Marshalls providing one of the best accounts of the Napoleonic Wars in one single volume. Klappentext A 1930s classic of British humour, an affectionate book on the subject of the English written by a Scot. Zusammenfassung A. G. Macdonell's 'England! Their England' is an affectionately satirical inter-war comic novel first published in 1933. It hit the right spot at the time and became a bestseller! and has endured as a classic of humour! transcending the passage of time. It is particularly famed for its portrayal of a village cricket match.
