Classic British Humor

thorold: Like The Rainbow, but funnier

thorold: I could add a hundred Wodehouse novels to this list, but you get the idea...

thorold: Waugh's first novel, and probably his funniest

thorold: Sue Townsend's send-up of adolescence is probably only funny if you're safely beyond that stage

thorold: Rye humour

thorold: Not as funny as people say it is, but worth it for the cricket match

thorold: Funniest mass suicide novel. Ever.

thorold: Thirkell was a snob and a reactionary, but she was also very good at mocking the English upper middle classes

merrystar: I prefer this to Cold Comfort Farm

thorold: The pioneering comic campus novel of the 1950s (before they had "campuses")

thorold : The Butler did it