About this title: Not so long ago, writes Jeremy Paxman, the English were "polite, unexcitable, reserved, and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex-life". Today the end of empire has killed off the Bulldog Breed - "fearless and philistine, safe in taxis and invaluable in shipwrecks" - and transformed the great public schools. Princess Diana was mourned with the ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780140267235ISBN:0140267239
Description: Acceptable. Well used. Still readable but not for the collector. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Overlook TP
Date Published: 2001-10-02
ISBN-13:9781585671762ISBN:1585671762
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: Good. 0140267239 19520 PB: spine creased, text clean, cover has slight shelf wear-allow up to 21 business days for standard USPS media m a i l. wt1lbpf. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 9/30/1999
ISBN-13:9780140267235ISBN:0140267239
Description: Very Good. 0140267239 IN STOCK! ! ! Paperback-Clean white pages with tight binding: NO marks, writing or stickers inside or out! From a pet-FREE, Smoke-FREE warehouse. A hint of edge wear from shelving. We ship to APO, FPO and International. And...Thank you! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2000-07-01
ISBN-13:9781585670420ISBN:1585670421
Description: G+ in G+ jacket. 2000 ex-library hardcover in G+ condition. No defects and no markings other than library. DJ covered in Mylar. Appears unread. read more
"Picked this book up during our recent trip to Canada (sorry Plato's Republic: bumped again...). Couldn't resist the figure of John Bull on the front, gorging himself on a foreign navy. Paxman is a television newsman and writes in an engaging style: "Once upon a time the English knew who they were... (they were) polite, unexcitable, reserved and had hot-water bottles instead of a sex life..." Paxman looks at the English through a stringent yet often affectionate lens and is particularly insightful about the tension between the England conjured up in the pages of "This England" magazine and the England of football hooliganism. England, it appears, is a place of curious contrasts. The final chapter, "Old Country, New Clothes" is particularly good on this."
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