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English Humorists: Douglas Adams, J. B. Priestley, P. G. Wodehouse, Ben Elton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jerome K. Jerome, Edmund Clerihew Bentley |
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English |
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Paperback |
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332 |
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2010-05-05 |
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115555146X |
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Books LLC |
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1.15 pounds |
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5.98 x 8.9 x 0.87 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Douglas Adams, J. B. Priestley, P. G. Wodehouse, Ben Elton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jerome K. Jerome, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Barry Cryer, Vivian Stanshall, Mark Thomas, Peter Ustinov, Max Beerbohm, George Grossmith, Martin Lewis, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, Stuart Wilde, Michael "Atters" Attree, Francis Burnand, A. P. Herbert, Michael Wharton, Arthur Cecil, J. B. Morton, David Quantick, Stephen Potter, Sue Townsend, Alan Coren, Jonathan Routh, David Baboulene, Helen Fielding, Frederick Hobson Leslie, Tony Hawks, Gerard Hoffnung, Charlie Connelly, Hugh Kingsmill, Craig Brown, Henry Duff Traill, Mitch Murray, Richard Corney Grain, Martyn Turner, Nigel Williams, Arthur Roberts, Adrian Plass, Reginald Arkell, Geoffrey Willans, Louise Rennison, Thomas Anstey Guthrie, Malcolm Pryce, Tim Moore, Barry Pilton, George Moutard Woodward, Barry Pain, Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, Wendy Holden, Augustus Mayhew, Fred Archer, Kenneth Walker. Excerpt: Sir Alan Patrick Herbert , CH (usually writing as A. P. Herbert or A. P. H. ) (24 September 1890 11 November 1971) was an English humourist , novelist , playwright and law reform activist. He was independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University for 15 years, five of which he combined with service in the Royal Navy . Early life He was born in Ashtead , Surrey , to Patrick Herbert, a civil servant, and Beatrice Herbert, née Selwyn . His mother died when he was seven years old. He had two younger brothers; both were killed in battle -- one in 1914 and the other in 1941. Education and public career He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford , obtaining a first class honours degree in jurisprudence. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1919, but never practised. He served in the Royal Navy during the First World War . He sur...
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