The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour & Mischief
Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes plain wrong. brbrFrom Jeffrey Bernard's reports from the Soho frontline and Auberon Waugh fulminating about hamburger gases in the early 1990s, we encounter in turn the wild stream of consciousness of Deborah Ross's restaurant reviews, the pinpoint etiquette advice of Mary Killen, Rod Liddle's frothing but elegantly sculpted outrage and the magazine's secret weapon, low life adventurer Jeremy Clarke. This bumper selection, which also includes eminent diarists, mad letter-writers and Boris Johnson, amounts to a masterclass in comic writing, lovingly compiled and edited by Marcus Berkmann, who still can't believe he wrote a monthly pop column for the magazine for twenty-eight years without being fired.
| Autor: | Berkmann, Marcus |
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| EAN: | 9781408707432 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 480 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Little, Brown Little, Brown Book Group |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 09.08.2016 |
| Schlagworte: | Englisch; Humor and the spectator humour gift marcus berkmann zimmer men ashes to ahses a shed of one's own berckmann's cricketing miscellany the spectator book of wit, humour and mischief rain men set phasers to stun british journalist sports writer sports writing cricket test cricket sci-fi writing star trek sports books sports humour personal memoirs sports non-fiction humour collections funny collections witty writers comic writers political humour |
| Größe: | 39 × 168 × 235 |
| Gewicht: | 756 g |
