I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs

I Told You I Was Sick: A Grave Book of Curious Epitaphs

by NigelRees (Author)

Synopsis

I Told You I Was Sick is a selection of mostly comic epitaphs and some that are not comic at all - though they might well be called curious. As such, it continues the centuries old custom of collecting epitaphs, but with rather more attempt at accuracy of transcription and location and context. The latest title in the Weidenfeld & Nicolson small-format humour series, I Told You I Was SIck includes 150 epitaphs, each of them explained and located. The epitaphs include that of Keith Woodward, a publican of Shrivenham, Wiltshire, whose dying wish was to have inscribed on his tombstone the words 'I told them I was ill'.) Parish councillors later ordered the message removed.) This 'nice derangement of epitaphs' (as Mrs Malaprop so splendidly remarked in Sheridan's The Rivals), will make the perfect Christmas stocking-filler.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Publisher: Orion
Published: 20 Oct 2005

ISBN 10: 0304368032
ISBN 13: 9780304368037
Book Overview: Quirky and amusing. Includes 150 epitaphs, each of them explained and located. The latest title in a small-format humour series that includes the Big Book of Filth and the Big Book of Sports Insults. The perfect Christmas stocking-filler.

Media Reviews
The handbook for the armchair graveyard browser: an assembly of familiar and not so familiar epitaphs. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH rib-tickling GUARDIAN Highly acclaimed Radio 4 presenter Nigel Rees presents his witty and curious selection of graveyard epitaphs. GOOD BOOK GUIDE The epitaphs are both well chosen and well illustrated SPECTATOR
Author Bio
Nigel Rees is the author of over 50 books, including the Cassell Dictionary of Humorous Quotations and the Cassell Companion to Quotations. He is the deviser and presenter of BBC Radio's Quote...Unquote, through which he has become an authority on the popular use of language in slogans, catchphrases, cliches, idioms and quotations.