THE BEST AFTER-DINNER STORIES
Written by Tim Heald
Illustrated by Paul Cox
Published by Folio Society
in 2003
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THE BEST AFTER-DINNER STORIES
Written by Tim Heald.
Illustrated by Paul Cox.
Stock no. 1830353
2004.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
White pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Selected and Introduced by Tim Heald. 268 pages. Third printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed.
THE BEST AFTER-DINNER STORIES
Written by Tim Heald.
Illustrated by Paul Cox.
Stock no. 1827286
2004.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition.
White pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. Selected and Introduced by Tim Heald. 268 pages. Fourth printing. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase with a few light scuff marks and lightly bumped at corners.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Geoffrey Chaucer Our Host
- William Shakespeare Henry V's St Crispin's Day Speech
- William Makepeace Thackeray Waterloo
- Samuel Johnson In brief
- Libby Purves Address to the Samuel Johnson Society
- Horace Walpole Charles Townshend's champagne Speech
- PG Wodehouse A few auspicious words
- Jose Manser Hugh Casson and Laurie Lee
- Jose Manser A Thatcher put-down
- John Wells and Richard Ingrams Dear Bill
- The King's Tradesmen On his Majesty's Birthday
- GK Chesterton Speechlessness
- Sir Pelham Warner Just not cricket
- Revd RH Barham From 'The Lay of St Cuthbert'
- Charles Dickens PS America
- Charles Dickens Dingley Dell v All Muggletonians
- Richard Ingrams Ballades and eachcomber
- Henry W Gradey The New South
- Mark Twain Littery Men
- Michael Holroyd A prominent feature
- AP Herbert Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill To the Corinthians
- Stanley Baldwin On England
- Stanley Baldwin Advice on speech-making
- John Fothergill Falls to Lodore
- AP Herbert The English Laugh
- Mae West In brief
- Dorothy Parker In brief
- Groucho Marx In brief
- Groucho Marx How to be a spy
- Osbert Sitwell Sir Herbert and Lady Tree
- AP Herbert The English Laugh - again
- Maurice Baring Such a treat
- AP Herbert The English laugh - chorus
- AP Herbert after dinner
- Joyce Grenfell Useful and acceptable gifts
- Evelyn Waugh Dreading it
- Gerard Hoffnung From a bricklayer in Golders Green
- Patrick Garland Lord David Cecil's dismay
- Clive James The Pembroke smoker
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to the French Chamber of Commerce
- John Gordon Lord Beaverbrook's last speech
- Lord Beaverbrook Apprentice
- Matthew Parris On Gyles Brandreth
- Gyles Brandreth Gobbledegook or small print
- The Think Tank Top Secret
- Miles Kington Ten Ways not to start a funny story
- John Mortimer Stranger than fiction
- Joanna Trollope Trollope and sex
- Robertson Davies Refuge of insulted saints
- HM The Queen Golden wedding
- Margaret Scott Royal, real and republic
- Tim Heald An evening with Brian Johnson
- Thomas Braun A Birthday tribute to Jasper Griffin
- Alan White Lewis Carroll and Ralph Steadman
- Ralph Steadman But we'll need some jam
- Helen Fielding Bridget Joes at a wedding
- Maureen Lipman BeRo and borrowed Hats
- David Burnett To the Society of Dorset Men
- William Ind, Bishop of Truro, Not enough Cricket
- Jilly Cooper, Meeting David Niven
- Patrick Garland The incomparable Rex Harrison
- Peter Ustinov A run-in with Dame Edith Evans
- Tim Heald Business unusual or the END
- Acknowledgements