Book - BookDetective

Name: England, Their England

Author: A. G. Macdonell
Year: 1933
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Pop Rating:

Genres/categories:
Free books, Award winners

Purchase/reserch links:

ISBNs:
9780333024256
0333024257

Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father's will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who, he is told, have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit and the memory of Lord Nelson . . .

What follows is one of the funniest social satires ever written. Whether Cameron is haplessly participating in a village cricket match, being shown around an exclusive golf course, or trying to watch a rugby match in the thick London fog, his affectionately bemused portrait of his new countrymen is a joy to read.

Reminiscent of the gentle wit of P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome K. Jerome, England, Their England offers a delightful portrait of Britain in the 1920s."