1066 And All That
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few books have ever made history so gloriously ridiculous — or so irresistibly funny. 1066 And All That is a wickedly brilliant parody of English history textbooks, chronicling the entire sweep of Britain's past through a fog of cheerful misremembering, muddled monarchs, and hilariously mangled facts, all delivered with the mock-solemnity of a schoolboy's fever dream. W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman present a nation whose history consists of exactly two genuine dates, a succession of Good Things and Bad Things, and a cast of kings and queens whose defining characteristics are almost entirely wrong — yet somehow feel truer than the truth. A landmark of British comic writing, the book skewers the pomposity of rote-learned history with a wit as sharp as it is affectionate, illustrating how the past lives on not as fact but as half-remembered myth. John Reynolds's delightful illustrations perfectly complement the anarchic tone, lending the whole enterprise an air of cheerful absurdity. First published in 1930 and never out of print since, it remains a touchstone of English humour — and a book that will leave you wondering, not entirely comfortably, just how much of what you learned in school was equally approximate.
Author: W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman
Format: Hardback
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few books have ever made history so gloriously ridiculous — or so irresistibly funny. 1066 And All That is a wickedly brilliant parody of English history textbooks, chronicling the entire sweep of Britain's past through a fog of cheerful misremembering, muddled monarchs, and hilariously mangled facts, all delivered with the mock-solemnity of a schoolboy's fever dream. W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman present a nation whose history consists of exactly two genuine dates, a succession of Good Things and Bad Things, and a cast of kings and queens whose defining characteristics are almost entirely wrong — yet somehow feel truer than the truth. A landmark of British comic writing, the book skewers the pomposity of rote-learned history with a wit as sharp as it is affectionate, illustrating how the past lives on not as fact but as half-remembered myth. John Reynolds's delightful illustrations perfectly complement the anarchic tone, lending the whole enterprise an air of cheerful absurdity. First published in 1930 and never out of print since, it remains a touchstone of English humour — and a book that will leave you wondering, not entirely comfortably, just how much of what you learned in school was equally approximate.