Le Bumper Book of Franglais - Hardcover

Miles Kington; Ian Hislop

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9781906964399: Le Bumper Book of Franglais

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906964394 ISBN 13: 9781906964399

Publisher: Old Street Publishing, 2010

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Amaze your friends and confound your critics with your fluent Franglais after these 101 hilarious lessons.

Franglais is the ultimate invented language. Baffling to our Gallic neighbours, but a source of unending delight to any English reader who has ever had to learn French at school, it is the creation of the great English humorist Miles Kington.

Enriched by more than fifty specially commissioned illustrations, Le Bumper Book of Franglais is a collection of pieces never before published in book form, written in the two-and-a-half decades up to the author's tragically early death in 2008.

These 101 miniature comic masterpieces present a timeless survey of the English character in all its absurdity. From Wimbledon to Windsor Safari Park, grouse-shooting to Guy Fawkes' night, the library to the lost property office, page after page is filled with wonderfully recognisable send-ups of our national life.

Not to mention the fact that after just 101 short (and highly enjoyable) lessons, even the most linguistically challenged reader will be thinking, dreaming and speaking Franglais. For, in the words of the grand master himself: 'Parler franglais -- c'est un doddle!'

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Review:

'Kington was a true comic genius, and Franglais is the defining achievement of his career'
Ian Hislop

'Miles Kington deserves to be given a knighthood, at least, for his services to humour. He is one of those very rare people who can be funny, effortlessly, for twenty-four hours a day'
Richard Ingrams

'A unique, quirky wordsmith'
Daily Mail

'Comic genius ... that's the thing about Miles Kington -- you couldn't make him up'
Independent --...

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