My Discovery Of England
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Binding loose with some wear at FEP.
With the wry eye of a seasoned satirist and the bemused wonder of a colonial abroad, Stephen Leacock chronicles his celebrated 1921 lecture tour of Britain in My Discovery of England — a riotous collection of essays that skewers English customs, institutions, and national quirks with affectionate but razor-sharp wit. From the baffling rituals of parliamentary democracy to the peculiarities of British hospitality, Leacock presents a comic travelogue that is as incisive as it is laugh-out-loud funny, casting a transatlantic gaze on a civilization simultaneously grand and gloriously absurd. Leacock, already one of the most widely read humorists in the English-speaking world by the early 1920s, writes in a voice that is warm yet merciless, drawing on his background as a political economist to give his comedy an unexpectedly sharp intellectual edge. My Discovery of England stands as a landmark of North American humour writing, illustrating how laughter can serve as a vehicle for genuine social commentary — and leaving the reader to wonder whether England was ever quite the same after Leacock got his hands on it.
Author: Stephen Leacock
Format: Hardback
Published: 1922, The Bodley Head Ltd
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Binding loose with some wear at FEP.
With the wry eye of a seasoned satirist and the bemused wonder of a colonial abroad, Stephen Leacock chronicles his celebrated 1921 lecture tour of Britain in My Discovery of England — a riotous collection of essays that skewers English customs, institutions, and national quirks with affectionate but razor-sharp wit. From the baffling rituals of parliamentary democracy to the peculiarities of British hospitality, Leacock presents a comic travelogue that is as incisive as it is laugh-out-loud funny, casting a transatlantic gaze on a civilization simultaneously grand and gloriously absurd. Leacock, already one of the most widely read humorists in the English-speaking world by the early 1920s, writes in a voice that is warm yet merciless, drawing on his background as a political economist to give his comedy an unexpectedly sharp intellectual edge. My Discovery of England stands as a landmark of North American humour writing, illustrating how laughter can serve as a vehicle for genuine social commentary — and leaving the reader to wonder whether England was ever quite the same after Leacock got his hands on it.