Adventures of Mr Thake [Hardcover]

J B Morton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 27, 2006

“As funny as Wodehouse, if not funnier.”— The Oldie

“The greatest comic fertility of any Englishman.”—Evelyn Waugh

Oswald Hattersley Blettisloe Thake, the ultimate upper-class English fool, lurches haplessly from calamity to calamity in 1930s Europe and America, describing everything (with delightful incomprehension) in his letters home to England. The Adventures of Mr Thake is a humor classic.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

J.B. Morton wrote the famous Beachcomber column in the Daily Express for almost 60 years. During his lifetime he was revered by Wodehouse and Waugh, among many others. He died in 1979.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Old Street Publishing Limited; 1st ed edition (November 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1905847033
• ISBN-13: 978-1905847037
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,420,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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