1,000 Years of Laughter: An anthology of classic comic prose
Aug 2002 · Naxos AudioBooks · Narrated by Griff Rhys Jones
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Laughter is unique to man. This delightful anthology presents some of the funniest extracts in English literature. David Timson starts with Anglo-Saxon riddles and continues with medieval memories, Tudor comic turns and Restoration buffoonery. The rise of the novel in the eighteenth century brought classic humour from Swift, Sterne and Smollet, passing the mantle to Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century. Included here are rarities as well, from the antiquarianÕs cupboard. There are also excerpts from childrenÕs literature and twentieth-century classics as diverse as Dorothy Parker and P.ÊG. Wodehouse. An entertainment from start to finish.
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