- Hardcover: 140 pages
- Publisher: Prion Books Ltd; New edition edition (13 Mar 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1853754188
- ISBN-13: 978-1853754180
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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- #99 in Books > Humour > Satire, Classic
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"Extremely funny" Jilly Cooper "Douglas Sutherland is a most witty exemplar of this vanishing species, and he has written a perfect self-parody of his type" New York Times Introduction by Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, Bart. Drawings by Timothy Jaques"
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Originally written for Debrett's Peerage and now something of a classic, Douglas Sutherland's guide to that endangered species, the English Gentleman, was originally written as an antidote to all the endless, dull little books on manners and etiquette: the kind read by those who long to be recognised as part of the real gentry by the way they use their finger-bowl or address an Archbishop. Both genuinely informative and yet very funny in its self-deprecating tone, The English Gentleman offers a window to the parvenu on the rather perverse world of the genuine article. It describes his habits: where he might live, what he might wear, his school, his clubs, his hobbies and sports, his family and relationships, his behaviour when abroad, his mode of speech and the acceptable way to behave in almost any given situation (invariably the very opposite of what the outsider might think). Not to mention advice on the correct attitude to have toward money (it is vulgar), sex (it is vulgar) and business (it is vulgar unless, of course, it is run at a heavy loss). It all adds up to an unmissable initiation into the eccentric social history of the stiff upper lip. A hilarious and insightful look at the real life counterparts to the sort of squires found in the fiction of Nancy Mitford, PG Wodehouse and Compton Mackenzie. Proving that truth is often stranger than fiction.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Since I'm not an Englishman, but I have many Englsh friends, gentlemen, of course, I recognice everything, as well the English, as the Swedish gentleman. And my two(!) black labradors !
There is only one thing that's wrong with this book.
It's to short, I have to ration the reading, no more than two chapters each night, because it's a book you don't want to finish!
Very funny, and lot's of understatements!
Buy it, you will not regret it!
Doc
There is only one thing that's wrong with this book.
It's to short, I have to ration the reading, no more than two chapters each night, because it's a book you don't want to finish!
Very funny, and lot's of understatements!
Buy it, you will not regret it!
Doc
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This almost pocket size book provides a tongue in cheek insight to the life of the upper class English gent. It isn't a book you would read from cover to cover but makes a great coffee table book that will make you laugh out loud. I purchased it as a gift and both the recipient and I were very pleased with it.
Format:Hardcover
I had a copy of this years ago and remembered it fondly (after having lent it out and not had it returned). Replaced and read again it lived up to the memory and is I believe a true classic recording, wittily and so true, the ways of a certain 'osaurs generation that is now, thankfully perhaps, all but extinct. It is not a book of 'how to be' more a study of particular and peculiar habits and behaviours; nobody should really want to be anything very much like the creature portrayed and concern for self-improvement, manners, etiquette or 'getting-on' play little part in the ways the beasts in question perform.
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Disappointing - can be read in an hour, which is probably how long it took to write!
Published on 5 May 2009 by M. J. Waite
JEEVES WOULD FIND THIS BOOK A HOOT!
Find out how the other half used to live when a gentlemen`s personal gentlemen was the norm and the conventions of society were followed to the letter, in a series of revealing and... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2007 by M. Drake
Funny book for a gentleman.
To really appreciate this book you will need to live the life of a true gentleman, or know how the other half live!
Great book with lots of short snippets. Read more
Great book with lots of short snippets. Read more
Published on 7 Jan 2007 by Scott
Are you upper class?
This book will help any one who would like to become a gentleman. It is written in a very funny way, I fount the book a very easy read with funny drawings. Read more
Published on 1 April 2001 by adamstab@yahoo.com
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