Author: David Milsted

Publisher/Date: Cassell, UK (2002, 1st) Retail price: $40.00

Format/Condition: New hardcover book and dust jacket in fine condition. 532 pages; Dimensions: 9.4×7.2×1.3 inches.

Description: Rule Britannia! Here is England’s very essence, captured in an anthology of over 1,500 quotes. Eccentricity, snobbery, war, and relationships with the rest of Europe all resound in a “parliament of voices” that ranges from Bede to Larkin, and includes traditional and Asian English. Arranged thematically (questions of identity, a touch of class), the words come from some of England’s finest writers. From the patriotic and laudatory to the dissident and choleric, it’s richly entertaining