This is truly a great work: over 1,100 pages containing extracts from humorous writings collected and introduced by the scriptwriter of well-known BBC radio shows. From William Caxton in the 15th century to the late 1990s anyone who was anyone in this field is represented here: Dickens, Saki, the whole New Yorker crowd, Richard Gordon, both Waughs, Private Eye and P.G. Wodehouse to name just a scattering. Worth every penny (or euro)!
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 13 April 2002 ) |
