Complete and unabridged. Roman history from Romulus to the empire, told as a running joke with punning footnotes and John Leech's cartoons. A Beckett wrote for Punch and produced these comic histories in the 1840s and 1850s; they were read by schoolboys who found them funnier than the textbook and remembered more of them. Its 77 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.
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Three Men in a Boat : To Say Nothing of the Dog
The Wrong Box : An Inheritance and an Unclaimed Body
The Cruise of the Kawa : Wanderings in the South Seas
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen : The Baron's Own Account of His Travels
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court : An American Engineer in the Court of Camelot
The Comic History of the United States : A Burlesque of the Republic's Story
Comic History of the United States : American History Told for Laughs
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green : An Oxford Freshman
Tea-Table Talk, and Other Stories : Wit and Nonsense Over the Teacups
The King of Schnorrers : Grotesques and Fantasies
A Tangled Tale : Ten Puzzles Wrapped in a Story
Three Comedies, and Other Writings : Sherlock Holmes Among the Shades
