A Cuckoo In The Nest
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What happens when a newlywed husband, desperate to conceal his innocent but compromising predicament from his formidable wife, finds himself stranded at a country inn with another woman? A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers is a riotous farce of misunderstandings, mistaken identities, and mounting chaos, set against the backdrop of quintessentially English country life in the 1920s. From its delightfully absurd premise, the novel hurtles forward at breakneck pace, drawing its hapless protagonist, Peter Wykeham, deeper into a web of comic catastrophe entirely of his own making. Ben Travers, celebrated as the undisputed master of British farce, crafts a work of exquisite comic architecture, where every misunderstanding is perfectly timed and every revelation lands with farcical precision. First adapted for the stage at the Aldwych Theatre in 1925, the story became one of the most beloved entries in the legendary series of Aldwych farces that defined an era of British theatrical comedy. Travers's prose is sharp, witty, and wickedly observant of the social proprieties and hypocrisies of the English middle classes — leaving the reader wondering, right until the last page, whether poor Peter will ever escape the nest he has so thoroughly fouled.
Author: Ben Travers
Format: Hardback
Published: 1924, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
What happens when a newlywed husband, desperate to conceal his innocent but compromising predicament from his formidable wife, finds himself stranded at a country inn with another woman? A Cuckoo in the Nest by Ben Travers is a riotous farce of misunderstandings, mistaken identities, and mounting chaos, set against the backdrop of quintessentially English country life in the 1920s. From its delightfully absurd premise, the novel hurtles forward at breakneck pace, drawing its hapless protagonist, Peter Wykeham, deeper into a web of comic catastrophe entirely of his own making. Ben Travers, celebrated as the undisputed master of British farce, crafts a work of exquisite comic architecture, where every misunderstanding is perfectly timed and every revelation lands with farcical precision. First adapted for the stage at the Aldwych Theatre in 1925, the story became one of the most beloved entries in the legendary series of Aldwych farces that defined an era of British theatrical comedy. Travers's prose is sharp, witty, and wickedly observant of the social proprieties and hypocrisies of the English middle classes — leaving the reader wondering, right until the last page, whether poor Peter will ever escape the nest he has so thoroughly fouled.