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It could be described as an anthology of over a thousand relevant quotations – and yet it is more than that too.
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Binding: Hardcover 372 pages
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1976
In 1976 Muir wrote The Frank Muir Book: An irreverent companion to social history, which is a collection of anecdotes and quotations collected under various subjects including “Music”, “Education”, “Literature”, “Theatre”, “Art” and “Food and Drink”
(In the United States, this book is titled “An Irreverent Social History of Almost Everything.”) A similar format to The Frank Muir Book was used in his BBC radio series Frank Muir Goes Into…, in which Alfred Marks read the quotations, linked verbally by Muir. He published books based on these series.
The Frank Muir Book is both an extraordinary book and unique. It could be described as Frank Muir’s personal account of some aspects of England’s social history. But it is much more than that. It could be described as an anthology of over a thousand relevant quotations – and yet it is more than that too.
Abusive, wittily critical, venomous, sullen or in some way represent displeasure. And they are all embedded in the text which means that each chapter is not only a diverting history of its subject but each page is illuminated by quotations from contemporaries speaking out against what was happening at the time.
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