England, Their England

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A review of an amateur production in Thursley, printed in The Times in January 1930, notes that he played his role with "immense gusto" which was "vastly to the taste of the audience". I went to a school founded 5 years before I started there, so by the time I left I had witnessed half its history to that point, and the country I was born in was only founded in 1840, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like to go to a school with such a depth of history. I somehow came across it mentioned as a pointed Scottish 'take' on the English, but it's really an affectionate and unfalteringly loyal letter of love. Gentle, tongue-in-cheek humour about England and Englishness from the perspective of a Scot back in the 1920s. But very, very much 'of its time' (quite entertainingly racist at points), dated and just, well, tiresome.

There is a sarcastic aside of the Great War definitely being the last one (I paraphrase) so it appears to be quite astute as well. Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. All of these are stereotypes but utterly identifiable as English in a specific time-and-place; this book is now, almost, a Sociological treatise. Reprint Society edition hardback; good, lightly aged to page edges, name on fep dated 1941; no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.

I put this on my to-be-read list sometime last year and promptly forgot about it, so when I came across it again, I wasn't quite sure why I was reading it, but what I found was a lovely, gentle, whimsical satire which is well worth a read.Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

Subversively, against this Macdonnell places “bright young things” who are still partying, still determinedly having fun as a reaction to the deaths of the Great War. In 1914 a man comes down to the green here, and he makes a speech about just that very national honour that you've been talking about.

The main misgiving is that this is generally just an asortment of set pieces between various bars, cricket pitches and periodicals, with Donald a fairly passive observer. England, Their England by Archibald Gordon Macdonell is included among The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read https://www. The Hogarth Press where I’m working, is in the heart of the literary world, with authors coming in all the time. Of these, I'm afraid I didn't find the cricket match nearly as funny as it's cracked up to be, but the comments on, for example, schools of novelists or the pretentiousness of modern theatre were much more amusing. Finally, the Kindle edition I had had all manner of typos and odd grammar in the intro, which nearly put me off reading the whole thing.

Fun Folio Society edition of MacDonell's gently comic novel depicting England (and village cricket) between the wars.It hit the right spot at the time and became a bestseller, and has endured as a classic of humour, transcending the passage of time. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. Genuinely witty in its observations and phrasing, with hilarious set-pieces and mostly affectionate portraits of a dozen varieties of eccentricity and oddness, this is a book for fans of Wodehouse and Jerome K.