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Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics (originale 2002; edizione 2002)

di William Donaldson (Autore)

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'The funniest book of the year, and quite possibly of all time' Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday Everyone loves a rogue. Take Louis de Rougemont, pearl diver, alligator hunter and King of the Cannibals, who was allegedly shipwrecked off the coast of New Guinea and survived by clinging to the tail of the ship's dog. Or Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne, who tired of waiting for heavenly rewards and became a swashbuckling pirate, rumoured to have employed Dick Turpin as his butler. From assassins and arsonists to hell-raisers and highwaymen, plus an array of poisoners, strumpets, quacks, and forgers, BREWER'S, ROGUES, VILLAINS and ECCENTRICS is a hugely entertaining miscellany of bizarre Britons through the ages. Including the famous, infamous and downright dangerous, you couldn't ask for a better gallery of Britain's most outrageous characters.… (altro)
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Titolo:Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics
Autori:William Donaldson (Autore)
Info:Cassell (2002), Edition: 1st, 676 pages
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An hilarious collection of entries on an array of interesting British folk. There's some famous people who drank a lot (Oliver Reed & Keith Moon both feature), some rather eccentric people, like the chap who hated people sitting near him on the train and would check his temperature anally every five minutes until people left him alone, and some out and out gangsters (Frankie Fraser, the Kray twins and others).

Donaldson writes well and fills out this brick of a book with many eyebrow raising entries, like "lavatory attendants who subsequently became celebrated publishers. See Carrington, Charles", and Major-General Orde Wingate's habit of holding briefing sessions in the nude. Sarah, the duchess of York, cracks a mention, as does Prince Philip. And, I even learnt that "twang" was an eighteenth century slang word for a prostitute's associate whose job it was to pick the client's pockets while he was having intercourse upright in a doorway. To think that some people find reading a waste of time. ( )
  MiaCulpa | Oct 9, 2018 |
Nothing to do with the Brewer of "Phrase and Fable", this alphabetical compendium of biographical entries is overweighted by a preponderance of tedious East End villains with nothing noteworthy about them but a tendency to extreme violence. However, there are brighter nuggets among the dross. No references are quoted, which leads me to believe that some entries ave been compiled from newspaper reports for which accuracy was not the first consideration. ( )
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Throughout his tragically short career, (Orde) Wingate displayed personal characteristics which were as orthodox as his battle plans. One of his habits was to hold briefing sessions in the nude. Senior colleagues grew to tolerate this, but foreign dignitaries were often disconcerted. Eliahu Elath, the future ambassador to the Court of St James's, was scarred for life, it was said, by his experience of discussing Zionism for an hour and a half with a completely naked man.
Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the law was changed in the United Kingdom to ensure that the production and supply of dangerous drugs should henceforth be in the hands of criminal organisations. Some people have argued that this is not an ideal arrangement.
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'The funniest book of the year, and quite possibly of all time' Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday Everyone loves a rogue. Take Louis de Rougemont, pearl diver, alligator hunter and King of the Cannibals, who was allegedly shipwrecked off the coast of New Guinea and survived by clinging to the tail of the ship's dog. Or Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne, who tired of waiting for heavenly rewards and became a swashbuckling pirate, rumoured to have employed Dick Turpin as his butler. From assassins and arsonists to hell-raisers and highwaymen, plus an array of poisoners, strumpets, quacks, and forgers, BREWER'S, ROGUES, VILLAINS and ECCENTRICS is a hugely entertaining miscellany of bizarre Britons through the ages. Including the famous, infamous and downright dangerous, you couldn't ask for a better gallery of Britain's most outrageous characters.

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