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5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious social satire on actual and apparent trends,
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This review is from: Memories of the future,: Being memories of the years 1915-1972,
This is one of the funniest books I've read in a long time. Knox's fictional autobiographer tells the story of her life up to the eve of the 1972-1975 Great War (major enough that the previous Great War of 1914-1918 was renamed the Five Years War). This medium gives Knox the chance to satirize various social trends of the 1910s and early 20s, especially in education, marriage and divorce, and the role of women in politics and business. There are many hilarious passages such as that where Lady Porstock describes the education of her sons in a school which forbade the boys to do the things the school administrators wanted them to do, so they would be naturally eager to do them; teachers read and taught from comic magazines while the students surreptitiously studied Greek (from books stolen from the restricted shelf in the library) under their desks. The index of proper names also contains a few good jokes.
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Memories of the future,: Being memories of the years 1915-1972, by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (Unknown Binding - 1923)
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