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1 online resource (448 pages) |
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| Summary |
A hilarious anthology of comic treasures written by Britain's "comic genius" -- the former editor of Punch and beloved regular on BBC's Radio 4 ( The Times ). Alan Coren was one of contemporary Britain's most prolific humorists. Over his forty-year career, Coren wrote comic and satirical pieces for The New Yorker , The Times , Observer , Tatler , Daily Mail , Mail on Sunday , and Punch , and published more than twenty books including The Sanity Inspector , Golfing for Cats and The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin . This anthology draws together the best of Coren's previously published material as well as never-before-published autobiographical material. In these pages, you will find the queen at a loose end playing I-Spy, QPR fans arguing at the cheese counter, prank phone calls to Mao Tse-Tung, the Roman tax collector Glutinus Sinus dealing with the mud-caked Britons, Gatling guns, an Italian driving school, herons, hearing aids, hosepipe bans, talking parrots . . Welcome to the wonderful world of the late, great Alan Coren! "Truly funny." -- Stephen Fry, actor, producer, director, and author of The Hippopotamus. |
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Publisher metadata. |
| Subject |
English wit and humor.
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HUMOR / Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture.
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Humor.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Coren, Giles.
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Coren, Victoria, 1972-
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| ISBN |
9781847673954 (epub) |
| Standard No. |
9781847673954 |
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