Archy's Life of Mehitabel

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by Lawrence Durrell
ESPRIT DE CORPS Sketches from Diplomatic Life
'My goodness it is funny .Whatever wars there may be and whatever crises, there will still, please heaven, be the diplomatic corps, with its protocol and formalities and a field for humour which I have never seen better used than in these stories. Indeed I have not laughed at a new humorous book so much since the days of Stephen Potter's Gamesmanship.' ?ohn Betjeman in The Daily Telegraph 'It is uproariously funny and shrewd ; it is as if Sir Harold Nicolson had gone into partnership with Mr P. G. Wodehouse. I claim to some knowledge of the subject—and the people—of whom Mr Durrell writes with so fresh a humour: and I know that, with the arrows of farce and of satire, he is on the target again and again.' John Connell i n t h e Lvening Ne ws
STIFF UPPER UP Antrobus Stories
'He has always been a witty, erudite writer, and even in these knockabout scenes from Embassy life the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Also in Faber paper covered editions
by Lawrence Durrell
ESPRIT DE CORPS Sketches from Diplomatic Life
'My goodness it is funny .Whatever wars there may be and whatever crises, there will still, please heaven, be the diplomatic corps, with its protocol and formalities and a field for humour which I have never seen better used than in these stories. Indeed I have not laughed at a new humorous book so much since the days of Stephen Potter's Gamesmanship.' ?ohn Betjeman in The Daily Telegraph 'It is uproariously funny and shrewd ; it is as if Sir Harold Nicolson had gone into partnership with Mr P. G. Wodehouse. I claim to some knowledge of the subject—and the people—of whom Mr Durrell writes with so fresh a humour: and I know that, with the arrows of farce and of satire, he is on the target again and again.' John Connell i n t h e Lvening Ne ws
STIFF UPPER UP Antrobus Stories
'He has always been a witty, erudite writer, and even in these knockabout scenes from Embassy life the details of background are fastidiously recorded. The phrases are shapely and telling. This is a very funny book, of a funniness that is rare, because it manages to be both- subtle and robust, both English and European.' The Times Literary Supplement
'A wholly funny, subtly written book, embellished with some splendid character sketches by Nicolas Bentley.' The Times
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'. . . further accounts of the manic adventures of the 'Dips' . . . who |
first made their bow in Esprit de Corps, and continued their dotty
witty way in Stiff Upper Lip____Mr Durrell's own verbal firecrackers '
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