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Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers Given the freedom to say what they want they take that freedom and more and the result is original provocative often very funny sometimes plain wrong From Jeffrey Bernards reports from the Soho frontline and Auberon Waugh fulminating about hamburger gases in the early 1990s we encounter in turn the wild stream of consciousness of Deborah Rosss restaurant reviews the pinpoint etiquette advice of Mary Killen Rod Liddles frothing but elegantly sculpted outrage and the magazines secret weapon low life adventurer Jeremy Clarke This bumper selection which also includes eminent diarists mad letterwriters and Boris Johnson amounts to a masterclass in comic writing lovingly compiled and edited by Marcus Berkmann who still cant believe he wrote a monthly pop column for the magazine for twentyeight years without being fired
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A stunningly original study of Stalinist society Essential reading for anyone interested in how human beings navigate a path through times of extraordinary upheaval privation and danger Daniel Beer In the shadow of the Gulag Soviet citizens were still cracking jokes They had to Drawing on diaries interviews memoirs and hundreds of previously secret documents Its Only a Joke Comrade uncovers how they joked coped and struggled to adapt in Stalins brave new world It asks what it really means to live under a dictatorship How do people make sense of their lives How do they talk about it And whom can they trust to do so Moving beyond ideas of resistance doublethink speaking Bolshevik or Stalins Cult of Personality to explain Soviet life it reveals how ordinary people found their way and even found themselves in a life lived along the faultlines between rhetoric and reality An extraordinary achievement Ronald Grigor Suny Revitalizes our understanding of Soviet society Lynne Viola Fascinating lively engaging and at times very funny Catriona Kelly The best book on Stalinism Ive read in a long time SA Smith One of those rare books that not only has to be read by scholars in the field but is also accessible to a wide readership Indeed it is an essential read for anybody who wants to get beyond standard views of the communist joke and understand what humour really tells us about life under this extraordinary regime David Priestland
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Muriel Spark is a wholly original presence in modern literature Andrew Motion This collection which contains all her published short stories together with some previously unpublished work amply displays Muriel Sparks extraordinary talent her cool biting humour and unique vision of human nature Ghosts and judges priests murder and French chateaux all the trademark Spark obsessions are here and much more besides
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This is a reprint of the first 12 issues starting from the first in January 1948 This is a unique look back to the great old days of hot rodding dry lake racing and humour Includes all the original advertising and editorial material for a nostalgic look at the beginnings of racing and hot rod culture
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Ronald Searle along with Andre Francois and Saul Steinberg is internationally acknowledged as being one of the great graphic satirists of our time He is also one of the most original draughtsmen to have emerged this century and he has had a considerable influence on pictorial humour This splendidly witty album the first substantial study of Searle draws on his work in the last ten years most of it previously unpublished to reveal just how varied and subtle is his art Ronald Searles articulate and very personal way of expressing himself in line brought him early fame and whilst still in his twenties he was acclaimed as having effected a oneman revolution in the world of visual humour This prodigy of the 1950s did not burn out as rapidly as he rose for today fortythree years after his first appearance in print at the age of fifteen he has successfully extended his activities to include film animation printmaking painting and threedimensional work in clay But he works always with wit never losing sight of his main purpose to caricature Whether he likes it or not Searles work has slid under the jealouslyguarded fence of the fine arts but always with a laugh however wry Two experts and friends examine the man and his work Professor Henning Bocks introduction is based on some years of professional and personal acquaintance and Pierre Dehaye Director of the French Mint with whom Searle has realized a number of projects examines the humorist from another angle In addition an illustrated chapter of unexpectedly revealing biographical notes helps to fill in the picture For the record Searles basic work from 1939 is extensively documented Nevertheless to be pedantic about humour or a humorist is ridiculous in itself It should not be forgotten that the subject of this book is laughter and that it sets out to achieve two purposes to present the work of a unique artist and also to provide entertainment 233 pages
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This is a reprint of the first 12 issues starting from the first in January 1948 This is a unique look back to the great old days of hot rodding dry lake racing and humour Includes all the original advertising and editorial material for a nostalgic look at the beginnings of racing and hot rod culture
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Ronald Searle along with Andre Francois and Saul Steinberg is internationally acknowledged as being one of the great graphic satirists of our time He is also one of the most original draughtsmen to have emerged this century and he has had a considerable influence on pictorial humour This splendidly witty album the first substantial study of Searle draws on his work in the last ten years most of it previously unpublished to reveal just how varied and subtle is his art Ronald Searles articulate and very personal way of expressing himself in line brought him early fame and whilst still in his twenties he was acclaimed as having effected a oneman revolution in the world of visual humour This prodigy of the 1950s did not burn out as rapidly as he rose for today fortythree years after his first appearance in print at the age of fifteen he has successfully extended his activities to include film animation printmaking painting and threedimensional work in clay But he works always with wit never losing sight of his main purpose to caricature Whether he likes it or not Searles work has slid under the jealouslyguarded fence of the fine arts but always with a laugh however wry Two experts and friends examine the man and his work Professor Henning Bocks introduction is based on some years of professional and personal acquaintance and Pierre Dehaye Director of the French Mint with whom Searle has realized a number of projects examines the humorist from another angle In addition an illustrated chapter of unexpectedly revealing biographical notes helps to fill in the picture For the record Searles basic work from 1939 is extensively documented Nevertheless to be pedantic about humour or a humorist is ridiculous in itself It should not be forgotten that the subject of this book is laughter and that it sets out to achieve two purposes to present the work of a unique artist and also to provide entertainment 233 pages
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An unconventional translation of Shakespeares sonnets that highlights the homoerotic subtext of the poetry with the original sonnets printed beside Rhenischs new versions With sly use of humour and many deeply moving and by turn raucous poems this collection is guaranteed to make you view Shakespeare in a different light
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