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    1000 Years of Laughter
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• • 千年笑片刻痴 / 1000 Years of Laughter
  • [ 读物介绍 ]
  • Laughter is unique to man. This delightful anthology presents someof the funniest extracts in English literature. It opens with Anglo-Saxonriddles ¡V ’they couldn’t keep themselves warm on a diet of Beowulf’ ¡Vand continues with medieval memories, Tudor comic turns andRestoration buffoonery.The rise of the novel in the 18th century brought classic humorfrom Swift, Sterne and Smollett, the mantle then passing to CharlesDickens in the 19th. Included here are rarities from the antiquarian’scupboard. Children’s literature produced unforgettable images fromWind in the Willows and Alice in Wonderland, while in the first half ofthe 20th century emerged unforgettable comic writers as diverse asDorothy Parker and P.G. Wodehouse. Entertaining from start to finish.DAVID TIMSONDavid Timson has performed in modern and classic plays acrossGreat Britain and abroad, including Wild Honey for Alan Ayckbourn,Hamlet, The Man of Mode and The Seagull. He has been seen on TV inNelson’s Column and Swallows and Amazons, and in the film TheRussia House. A familiar and versatile audio and radio voice, hereads The Middle Way and performs in Hamlet and A MidsummerNight’s Dream; he has also read five volumes of Sherlock Holmesstories for Naxos AudioBooks.
  • • 作品列表
    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：38612  1000 Years of Laughter

      • Laughter - Robert Burton

      • Anglo-Saxon Riddles

      • The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambriensis

      • 14th century advice from Johannes de Mirfeld

      • An Alphabet of Tales

      • Demanundes Joyous

      • The Gull's Horn-book

      • Wits, Fits and Fancies

      • Eight kinds of Drunkenness from Pierce Penniless His Supplication To The Devil

      • Launce and his Dog

      • The Anatomy Of Melancholy

      • Jokes from 17th centruy jest book

      • The great age of clubs

      • The Club of Little Men

      • The Club Of She-Romps

      • The Club Of Ugly Faces

      • The Island of Laputa

      • Peregrine Pickle

      • Tristram Shandy

      • Tristram Shandy

      • Tristram Shandy

      • Fanny Burney's Diary 1785

      • Fanny Burney's Diary 1785

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：38612  1000 Years of Laughter

      • Emma

      • That We Should Rise with the Lark

      • Lamb's Letter to H.F. Carey

      • Sayings of Sydney Smith

      • Mrs. Caudles Curtain Lectures

      • Victorian Humour: Oscar Wilde to Punch

      • De Omnibus

      • At Rochester

      • The Pickwick Papers

      • The Old Curiosity Shop

      • To Agnes Hull

      • The Mad Hatter's Tea Party

      • The Wind in the Willows

      • The Wind in the Willows

      • CD03
      • 作品编号：38612  1000 Years of Laughter

      • The Diary Of A Nobody

      • Happy Thoughts

      • Two on a Tower

      • Mr Polly

      • Mr Polly

      • Three Men in a Boat

      • Three Men in a Boat

      • Rip Van Winkle

      • Josh Billings, His Sayings

      • The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

      • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

      • CD04
      • 作品编号：38612  1000 Years of Laughter

      • The one-liner

      • The Waltz

      • The Young visiters

      • Reginald On House-Parties

      • Right Ho Jeeves

      • Right Ho Jeeves

      • Jeeves Takes Charge

      • The Remarkable Rocket

      • The Squib, the Roman Candle, the Catherine Wheel

      • The Rocket

      • The Rocket - 'What right have you to be happy?'

      • The dance - and the firework display

      • A little frog, with bright jewelled eyes

      • A large white duck

      • So they piled up the wood and put Rocket on top, and lit the fire