The Best Of Everything
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: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
What do Gerald Durrell, Anthony Burgess, Clement Freud, and Nigel Dempster have in common? They are among the brilliant constellation of British writers and personalities assembled in The Best of Everything, a sparkling anthology edited by William Davis that takes an authoritative and often witty tour through the finest things life has to offer. Each contributor commands their own domain — Animals, Business, Drink, Travel, Food, Literature, Medicine, Playtime, Politics, and Theatre — delivering essays that are at once opinionated, entertaining, and richly informed. The result is a book that reads less like a collection and more like a brilliantly curated dinner party, where every guest has something genuinely worth saying. Edited with a sure hand by Davis, the long-serving editor of Punch magazine and a seasoned commentator on modern life, this anthology captures a very particular strain of mid-century British cultural confidence — the belief that excellence, in all its forms, is worth celebrating and defending. The contributors bring vastly different voices and temperaments to their subjects, yet the whole is unified by a shared appetite for the best that civilisation has to offer. Whether you're drawn to Burgess on literature or Whicker on travel, each section leaves you hungry to know more — and quietly convinced that the contributors might just be right.
Author: William Davis
Format: Hardback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
What do Gerald Durrell, Anthony Burgess, Clement Freud, and Nigel Dempster have in common? They are among the brilliant constellation of British writers and personalities assembled in The Best of Everything, a sparkling anthology edited by William Davis that takes an authoritative and often witty tour through the finest things life has to offer. Each contributor commands their own domain — Animals, Business, Drink, Travel, Food, Literature, Medicine, Playtime, Politics, and Theatre — delivering essays that are at once opinionated, entertaining, and richly informed. The result is a book that reads less like a collection and more like a brilliantly curated dinner party, where every guest has something genuinely worth saying. Edited with a sure hand by Davis, the long-serving editor of Punch magazine and a seasoned commentator on modern life, this anthology captures a very particular strain of mid-century British cultural confidence — the belief that excellence, in all its forms, is worth celebrating and defending. The contributors bring vastly different voices and temperaments to their subjects, yet the whole is unified by a shared appetite for the best that civilisation has to offer. Whether you're drawn to Burgess on literature or Whicker on travel, each section leaves you hungry to know more — and quietly convinced that the contributors might just be right.