The Egregious English


Read by David Wales

(3.2 stars; 3 reviews)

This 1903 book is a tongue-in-cheek send-up of English people and subjects. Within the humor (or humour), the listener may be surprised by some diamond-hard observations. The listener is also alerted to some attitudes of a different time that would not be acceptable in today's polite discourse. Here writing as “Angus McNeil”, a Scotsman, Crosland was a British author, poet, and journalist (1865-1924) . ( David Wales) (3 hr 45 min)

Chapters

Apollo - The Sportsman 20:08 Read by David Wales
The Man Of Business - The Journalist 18:49 Read by David Wales
The Employed Person - Chiffon 23:34 Read by David Wales
The Soldier - The Navy 20:58 Read by David Wales
The Churches - The Politicians 25:19 Read by David Wales
Poets - Fiction 23:28 Read by David Wales
Suburbanism - The Man-About-Town 22:13 Read by David Wales
Drink - Food 20:06 Read by David Wales
Law And Order - Education 21:03 Read by David Wales
Recreation - Stock Exchange - The Beloved 30:13 Read by David Wales

Reviews


(1 stars)

I did not find this very interesting. The Author did not convince me to dislike or distrust the English based on his arguments. Too much of it generalized and was not specific. it was too "whiney". This fm one American.