Adam Dumphy

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The Unlikely Adventures of Ranulf the Unready (eBook, ePUB)

Book One a Mostly Ungrand Grand Tour

Beschreibung

Introducing Ranulf, "the unready", fictional descendant of Ethelred "the unready" a medieval Saxon Kinglet. Ranny, Seventh Viscount Lindley is tour guide for some troubled friends through the Balkans in 1914.

There is Dimitrov and his bomb, the nicest Nihilist anyone could hope to meet but troubled at his girl friend Revolta's late nights out "at the library". Svetislof a fish truck driver/poet is troubled as his wife understands him but his mistress does not. And Princess Ireana of , disguised as a lady's maid but troubled to find the frequent bows of a maid before royalty causes leg cramps and gives unlimited opportunity to any butler with a penchant for pinching. And others.

A parody of novels of the 1920s, intended to amuse.

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Autor

In private Adam Dumphy is frequently heard to say, "Who can account for the English." Not that he accounts them 'no-accounts'. On the contrary he admires them extravagantly. It is just that he feels that some of their beliefs and customs are, well.... unaccountable.

For example he feels that the British time honored belief that a rat in the cask makes for the best cider. Of course he admits that in the US we did once consider that it took rattlesnake heads in a barrel of cowboy whiskey to produce just the right 'bouquet'. An up grade on the British belief surely but hardly one to boast about.

Then he might mention the British custom of hanging woodcock in the sun until the meat is ready to fall off the bones before cooking. Of course here we have college freshman who swallow gold fish and apparently otherwise normal persons who eat sushi.

Or he will quote the fact that to the Brit at home the domestic cat dozing before the fireplace is man's second-best friend. While abroad he gobbles down his second-best friend voraciously when sautéed in wine and garlic.

He feels then that we really have no right to be critical of the Brits but still it is such fun to laugh at them. And after all they poke fun at themselves (Wodehouse and Waugh) and they did so first. So it must be, "jolly well cricket, old chap, doncher know" for us to do it too.

In this book he does it again and again

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781463475147
• Artikelnr.: 69327832