The best after-dinner stories
2003
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Ever since Chaucer's day, when the host of the Tabard Inn in Southwark rose to welcome the Canterbury Pilgrims with a joke, the After Dinner Speech, designed, if possible, to reduce the assembled company to helpless merriment, has presented the ultimate challenge. Shaggy dog stories, practical jokes, sporting anecdotes, rousing toasts, travellers' tales and risqu ̀Œreminiscences rub shoulders in this essential collection with real-life revelations and moments of history.
Main title:
The best after-dinner stories / selected and introduced by Tim Heald ; with illustrations by Paul Cox.
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Imprint:
Folio Society, 2003.
Collation:
268 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
In slipcase.
Dewey class:
828.9140208
Language:
English
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BRN:
1285265