The Spectator book of wit, humour and mischief
2016
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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. From 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.
Main title:
The Spectator book of wit, humour and mischief / edited by Marcus Berkmann.
Author:
Berkmann, Marcus, editor
Imprint:
London : Little, Brown, 2016.
Collation:
512 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781408707432 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
827.9208827.92 BERK827.9208 BER
Language:
English
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BRN:
1852883
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