THE COMPLETE FAWLTY TOWERS

Cleese, John & Connie Booth

ISBN 10: 0413183904 / ISBN 13: 9780413183903

Published by Methuen London Ltd., London, England, 1988

About this Item

**Bundle Up and Save On Postage** Glossy hard cover is lightly rubbed, top corner back panel is bumped, name-plate sticker on front end page (no name), pages lightly tanned. 6 X 9" 333 pages. Illustrated with 15 black/white stills. Published in its entirety, the 12 programmes which made Fawlty Towers one of the most celebrated series of all time since their first appearance in the mid-1970s. Will appeal to all but British hoteliers.

Seller Inventory # 32230

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE COMPLETE FAWLTY TOWERS
• Publisher: Methuen London Ltd., London, England
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413183904
• ISBN 13: 9780413183903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Black & White Photographs
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humour

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Synopsis

What did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the great wedding anniversary disaster? And what is the Spanish word for "donkey"?The answer to all these questions can be found in this, the complete and unexpurgated scripts of Fawlty Towers—the most celebrated "Brit-com" of all time, and the show was voted the top UK television series ever by the British Film Institute. The snobbish, manic Basil...his over-coiffeured, domineering wife Sybil...the hopeless but ever-hopeful waiter Manuel...the calm and capable Polly...and of course the steady stream of abused guests—all live again in the pages of The Complete Fawlty Towers. Gahan Wilson in the New York Times has called John Cleese "arguably one of the funniest people now living." And as one British periodical (Literary Review) put it, the book is "superbly well written. If you're on a bus and can't see Basil Fawlty thrashing his car with a large branch, it is some compensation to read it happening." Or as one anonymous fan put it on-line: "Yes, it's all here, all the comedy, the frustration, the dead body, even the rat."

From the Inside Flap

and unexpurgated scripts of one of the most celebrated comedy series ever. Published in its entirety for the first time and illustrated with a host of hilarious photographs, The Complete Fawlty Towers will appeal to the millions of fans who have suffered through endless PBS fundraisers waiting for the next episode -- and anyone who has survived a package holiday tour.

Fawlty Towers is the hotel of every traveler's nightmare. Basil Fawlty -- ill-tempered, henpecked, and conniving -- tries in vain to be master of his house under the disapproving and ever-watchful eye of his wife, Sybil. The hotel offers service by Manuel, the incompetent Spanish waiter whose feeble grasp of English makes for hilarious misunderstandings, and Polly, the unflappable chambermaid who is Fawlty Towers' only sane employee. Meals are scorched in the kitchen while adulterers consort upstairs and chaos reigns all around. For countless fans, Fawlty Towers is the best-loved bad hotel in the world, and with publication