The Not Terribly Good Book Of Heroic Failures
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The Not Terribly Good Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-10-04
The Not Terribly Good Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-04 with Humor categories.
Last year Stephen Pile attempted to deliver a daring blow to the success ethic that so pervades Western culture. To his dismay, The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures sold many copies and even became the Sunday Times 'Humour Book of the Year.' Nothing daunted, Stephen returns with a new selection which brings together the very best of his original classic titles - The Book of Heroic Failures and The Return of Heroic Failures. The heartwarming news that stays news is that there really is no limit to what humanity can achieve, as we move onwards and downwards to ever more immortal and breathtaking feats of incompetence. The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures lovingly chronicles the all-time heroes who have been so bad at things that they shine as beacons for future generations. It is hard not to feel boundless admiration, for example, for the fifty Mexican convicts who dug an escape tunnel out of their jail and came up in the courtroom where many of them had been sentenced. Or for the world's worst tourist, who spent three days in New York believing he was in Rome.
The Ultimate Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-10-20
The Ultimate Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-20 with Humor categories.
THE SUNDAY TIMES HUMOUR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the few books to make me laugh out loud' Sunday Express With Stephen Pile's The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures, celebrate the very best in failure with this all new collection of outrageously funny misadventures from the author of the classic number one bestseller The Book of Heroic Failures. Anyone can be a success, but it takes real and original genius to foul up big time. These are the all-time greats, Gods in the field of failure, surreal artists, who spurn mere drab success ('I'm a winner, Lord Sugar') to explore the vast, magical, life-enhancing possibilities of getting it wrong. Any of us could make a mistake, but these great souls can turn the simplest everyday task into a scene of jaw-dropping wonder. These are the immortals. Failure is everywhere. The Book of Heroic Failures, takes us on an all-new and mind-bendingly hilarious tour to celebrate the most spectacular and absurd failures of the last twenty-five years. There are 235 stories in total spread from the Outer Hebrides to America, Ireland, Australia, Europe and Africa. From the most driving test failures (959), the most pointless election (in Dakota, in which not even the mayor voted), the worst robbery (when two different sets of bank robbers struck simultaneously) and the worst mugger (who left his victim $250 better off), to the holidaying rugby team of fifty-somethings from Dorchester who, due to a mis-translation, ended up playing the top team from Romania live on state TV, this is the ultimate book to make you feel better about yourself and the world around you.
The Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Longman
Release Date : 1999
The Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Longman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Curiosities and wonders categories.
It is difficult to be really bad at something, but the people in this book manage to succeed The book features tales of drivers who can't drive, travellers who get lost all the time and policemen who can't catch criminals.
The Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Release Date : 1979
The Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Routledge Kegan & Paul this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Failure (Psychology) categories.
The Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
The Incomplete Book Of Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher: Plume
Release Date : 1979
The Incomplete Book Of Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by Plume this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.
Heroic Failure And The British
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Author : Stephanie L. Barczewski
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Heroic Failure And The British written by Stephanie L. Barczewski and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Aan de hand van heroïsche mislukkingen zoals de Charge van de Lichte Brigade en Captain Scott wordt licht geworpen op het Brits zijn.
Heroic Failure
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Author : Fintan O'Toole
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-22
Heroic Failure written by Fintan O'Toole and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-22 with Political Science categories.
'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative' David Miliband. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing' Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the English that I've read for ages' Billy Bragg. A fierce, mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism. Trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions; the pose of indifference to truth and historical fact came to define the style of an entire political elite; a country that once had colonies redefined itself as an oppressed nation requiring liberation. Fintan O'Toole also discusses the fatal attraction of heroic failure, once a self-deprecating cult in a hugely successful empire that could well afford the occasional disaster. Now failure is no longer heroic – it is just failure, and its terrible costs will be paid by the most vulnerable of Brexit's supporters. A new afterword lays out the essential reforms that are urgently needed if England is to have a truly democratic future and stable relations with its nearest neighbours.
The Book Of Heroic Failures
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Author : Stephen Pile
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Book Of Heroic Failures written by Stephen Pile and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Failure (Psychology) categories.
Edward Iii Penguin Monarchs
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Author : Jonathan Sumption
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2016-05-26
Edward Iii Penguin Monarchs written by Jonathan Sumption and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-26 with History categories.
Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of England's population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred Years War with France began under his leadership. Yet Edward managed to rule England for fifty years, and was viewed as a paragon of kingship in the eyes of both his contemporaries and later generations. Venerated as the victor of Sluys and Crécy and the founder of the Order of the Garter, he was regarded with awe even by his enemies. But he lived too long, and was ultimately condemned to see thirty years of conquests reversed in less than five. In this gripping new account of Edward III's rise and fall, Jonathan Sumption introduces us to a fêted king who ended his life a heroic failure.