Catacrok! : mostly stories, mostly funny / by Robert Graves

Graves, Robert (1895-1985)

Published by London : Cassell & Co, 1956

About this Item

Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 203 pages; 23 cm. Contents: Foreword -- Varro's four hundred and ninety books -- Treacle tart -- The full length -- An appointment for Candlemas -- The devil is a protestant -- Trín-trín-trín -- Earth to earth -- Epics are out of fashion -- School life in Majorca -- Bulletin of the College of St Francis of Assisi -- New light on dream-flight -- Period piece -- Protocols of kitsch -- touristic circular K37 -- The say . they say -- Week-end at CWM TATWS -- 6 valiant bulls 6 -- He went out to buy a Rhine -- A man may not marry his . -- God grant your honour many years -- The white horse, or 'The great southern ghost story' -- A bomb under my monument -- Thy servant and God's -- Ever had a Guinea worm? -- Sappy blancmange -- Cambridge upstairs -- The five godfathers -- Kill them! kill them! -- The abominable Mr. Gunn -- Harold Vesey at the gates of hell -- Flesh-coloured net tights -- 'Ha-ha!' chort-led nig-ger -- Life of the poet Gnaeus Robertulus Gravesa -- Ditching in a fishless sea -- The Whitaker negroes -- Bathunts at Bathurst. Subjects: Satire, English. Fiction. 20th century comedy writing. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Catacrok! : mostly stories, mostly funny / by Robert Graves
• Publisher: London : Cassell & Co
• Publication Date: 1956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 1 kilogram