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The Diary of a Nobody(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
Published:
13/10/1999
Mr Charles Pooter is a well-meaning city clerk and one of a number of lower middle-class suburbanites set on improving their social standing. Aspiring to posterity, he embarks on a diary in which he...
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Diary of a Provincial Lady(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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01/02/2000
This is a gently self-effacing, dry-witted tale of a long-suffering and disaster-prone Devon lady of the 1930s. A story of provincial social pretensions and the daily inanities of domestic life to r...
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Cannibalism in the Cars(Hardback)
And Other Humorous Sketches
Prion Books Ltd
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01/03/2000
Mark Twain gives readers his sardonic sketches on everything from politicians, preachers, journalists, barbers, nagging wives, devious children and gullible low-lifes. Through these tales the violen...
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Unrest-cure and Other Beastly Tales(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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03/05/2000
These cautionary tales, which invariably involve animals, tell of country parties where upper-class twits meet with macabre accidents and urbane and mischevious young heroes get the better of their ...
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Three Men in a Boat(Hardback)
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Prion Books Ltd
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11/12/1999
Harris, George and J. are three Victorian idlers: amiable buffons who love their food, their drink and bachelor home comforts. They're none to keen on work either. Deciding they need a change of sce...
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The Education of Hyman Kaplan(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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30/03/2000
Leo Rosten wrote his first tale of Hyman Kaplan when he was 24 and it was published to great applause by the "New Yorker". Over the next two years the magazine ran all 15 of the original stories tha...
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The Serial(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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05/04/2000
"The Serial" is a soap opera set in Marin Country, California. It follows Kate and Harvey's Holroyd's attempts to keep up with their wacked-out neigbours' fashionable credentials - a year in which t...
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Mapp and Lucia(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
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13/05/2000
"Mapp and Lucia" is the centrepiece of E.F. Benson's series of Lucia novels. She, recently widowed, is the newcomer to the village of Tilling and eager to wrest the reins of social supremacy from th...
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The Return of Hyman Kaplan(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
Published:
30/05/2000
Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on the bottom rung in the beginner's grade at the A...
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My Life and Hard Times(Hardback)
Prion Books Ltd
Published:
10/07/2000
Shy Midwesterner James Thurber narrates in bewildered deadpan the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyond. It is a world with its own logic, full of the absurd anxieties and hilarious ...
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