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Surveys classic literature for humor, covering the great comic characters of Shakespeare and Dickens, Anglo-Saxon riddles, and a description of eccentricities in a twelfth-century monastery, and the jokes and one-liners from such wits as Sir Sydney Smith, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twaine, and Dorothy Parker.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781522633075, titled "1,000 Years of Laughter: An Anthology of Classic Comic Prose" | Mp3 una edition (Naxos Audiobooks Ltd, April 19, 2016), cover price $9.99
9789626342695 | Naxos Audio Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $28.98 | About this edition: Surveys classic literature for humor, covering the great comic characters of Shakespeare and Dickens, Anglo-Saxon riddles, and a description of eccentricities in a twelfth-century monastery, and the jokes and one-liners from such wits as Sir Sydney Smith, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twaine, and Dorothy Parker.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9789626347690 | Naxos Audio Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $22.98 | About this edition: Surveys classic literature for humor, covering the great comic characters of Shakespeare and Dickens, Anglo-Saxon riddles, and a description of eccentricities in a twelfth-century monastery, and the jokes and one-liners from such wits as Sir Sydney Smith, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twaine, and Dorothy Parker.
Hardcover:
9780711236455 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, October 1, 2015, cover price $40.00
Hardcover:
9781909844698 | Parthian Books, January 1, 2015, cover price $30.99
Product Description: In punts canoes and rowing boats, Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a tour of Britain's beautiful and extraordinary rivers. He battles through the gorges and waterfalls of Scotland's wild mountains, drifts across the plains of East Anglia and plunges into the Wye, exploring the legends and stories of our rivers on the way...read more
Paperback:
9780340918647, titled "Rivers: One Man and His Dog Paddle into the Heart of Britain" | Hodder & Stoughton, March 21, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In punts canoes and rowing boats, Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a tour of Britain's beautiful and extraordinary rivers.
9780340918630 | Hodder & Stoughton, June 11, 2009, cover price $27.95
Product Description: Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, which established his reputation and brought India to the British imaginationA Penguin ClassicIncluding the stories “Lispeth,” “Beyond the Pale,” and “In the Pride of His Youth,” this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society...read more
Paperback:
9780141442396 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, July 26, 2011), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, which established his reputation and brought India to the British imaginationA Penguin ClassicIncluding the stories “Lispeth,” “Beyond the Pale,” and “In the Pride of His Youth,” this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances and divided identities, creating a rich portrait of Anglo-Indian society.
9780955519635 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, October 1, 2008, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Set and published during the time the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, tiffin and bands playing The Roast Beef of England, the forty stories in 'Plain Tales From The Hills' are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate and petty jealousies rife amongst the British inhabitants of India.
Paperback:
9780141012872 | Gardners Books, January 18, 2007, cover price $13.85 | About this edition: 336pages.
Paperback:
9780141012865 | New edition (Gardners Books, January 13, 2005), cover price $16.20 | About this edition: In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall.
Product Description: Accompanying a BBC2 series looking for the buildings most deserving of preservation and saving one for posterity, this volume paints a complete portrait of the United Kingdom's architectural heritage and offers an introduction to the buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales...read more
Hardcover:
9780755312511 | Headline Book Pub Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Accompanying a BBC2 series looking for the buildings most deserving of preservation and saving one for posterity, this volume paints a complete portrait of the United Kingdom's architectural heritage and offers an introduction to the buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Product Description: This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth of the nation's life during the 20th century is encapsulated here...read more
Paperback:
9780563551430 | Bbc Pubns, January 1, 2000, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century.
Product Description: This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky' to lesser known and forgotten gems such as Gelett Burgess's 'The Purple Cow', Griff Rhys Jones takes us on a poetic tour of witty, nonsensical and plain laugh-out-loud funny poems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780563384519 | Pbk ed edition (Bbc Pubns, June 1, 1999), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry.
Paperback:
9780719533501 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, December 1, 1989, cover price $19.95
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