The Incomplete Framley Examiner

Author : The Editors
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781800180833

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The Incomplete Framley Examiner by The Editors Pdf

In 2001, fans of the internet were introduced to scanned pages from spoof local newspaper The Framley Examiner. Packed with humdrum and preposterous news stories, classified ads, local business features and headlines that seemed to have been typed while asleep, it skewered the banal madness of small-town existence, perfectly encapsulating the British national character. Framley’s strange yet familiar community – stuffed with its own cast, insane geography and rich local history – struck a chord with those who recognised their own home towns in its reflection. The website was loved and shared by an eager public as well as famous fans from Little Britain, The Simpsons and the Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (Professor Stephen Hawking was a Framley enthusiast). Marking the twentieth anniversary of the website's first appearance The Incomplete Framley Examiner combines the pages of the original book, published in 2002, with all the pages published online in the years since and brand new material for a bigger, more luxurious, toilet-proof compendium for the annals of history.

Author : Charlie Brooker
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Satire, English
ISBN : 0571272193

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TV Go Home by Charlie Brooker Pdf

TV Go Home began life in the late 1990s as an outrageously funny website by Charlie Brooker which parodied the Radio Times, and was turned into a book in 2001 when Brooker was still a relative unknown. It was a brutal and surreal satire of the world of TV, media and celebrity, written with Brooker's trademark savage wit. Unavailable for some years, we are republishing it to reach his many thousands of new fans. In TV Go Home, visit a parallel world where reality TV and 'new media' have got completely out of control. Shows include Daily Mail Island, where inhabitants of a small island are force-fed the newspaper and become ever more outraged, an eternal version of Watchdog where viewers are invited to 'phone in and complain about every single facet of every single object, product and service in the world' and various extremely rude shows featuring Mick Hucknall's testicles. Star of the book is Brooker's famous creation Nathan Barley, pretentious Hoxton new-media type 'whose very existence indelibly tarnishes the world's already questionable track record'. Not for the faint-hearted, TV Go Home is a gloriously funny, filthy and spectacularly angry book.

Author : Viz,Viz Magazine
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : 1907232907

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Roger's Profanisaurus by Viz,Viz Magazine Pdf

From the playground to the boardroom, this lexicon of bad language makes, arguably, a more important contribution to the everyday vocabulary of the British Isles than the Oxford dictionary. Now, with over 10,000 entries, this edition features the latest in expletives, sexual obscenities and lavatorial euphemisms.

Author : Richard Littler
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : England, North West
ISBN : 0008307016

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The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler Pdf

'Horrific and hilarious ... a dystopic vision of an England that would have given Orwell the heebie-jeebies' Independent'A brilliant work of satire' The Quietus A SCARFOLK SANCTIONED BOOK AUTHORISED EDITION, AS SEEN ON THE RADIO The Scarfolk Annual is the facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west of England in August 2018. The shop, and indeed town, do not wish to be identified as they are keen to "discourage the 'occult-totalitarian tourism' that as afflicted other areas of Britain" as people hunt for further socio-archaeological traces of the mysterious, missing town of Scarfolk - Britain's own Brutalist Atlantis. Apart from the archive of Scarfolk materials which was sent anonymously to the late Dr Ben Motte and formed the basis of the book Discovering Scarfolk, this children's annual is, to date, the only complete artefact from Scarfolk ever to be unearthed 'in the wild'. It's clear The Scarfolk Annual was not written to entertain children at Christmastime; its purpose was to indoctrinate young minds; in fact, one might go as far as to say destroy young minds, to an end that has been lost to us.

Author : Framley Examiner Editors,MICHAEL JOSEPH
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English newspapers
ISBN : 0718145798

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The Framley Examiner by Framley Examiner Editors,MICHAEL JOSEPH Pdf

When the outraged headline cries Cycle Lane Not Even as Long as Small Cycle you know something's not quite right. Welcome to Framley. Like a whimsical, silly step-child of the League of Gentlemen and TV Come Home this brilliant spoof of a local newspaper quickly became a favourite when it appeared online last year. The book of the website of the newspaper, this is set to be a classic.

Author : Jason Hazeley,Joel Morris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781405925730

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How it Works: The Wife by Jason Hazeley,Joel Morris Pdf

The PERFECT GIFT for your long-suffering wife or prospective bride. Or, for any fool of a husband or seriously deluded groom-to-be who hasn't yet understood what he's signed up for. -------------------- Tina is getting married. It is the best day of her life. Next year, she will claim that becoming a mother was the best day of her life, but only because she was on some very strong drugs. Neither is true. The best day of her life was on her eighth birthday, when she got a yellow bike. -------------------- The wife likes surprises. Her favourite sort is a surprise birthday party. It is the husband's job to organise this surprise for her, and to keep her informed of every detail about it. -------------------- This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. 'Hilarious' Stylist

Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781107085732

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Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Joanne Shattock Pdf

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.

Author : Richard Littler
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473557703

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Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler Pdf

"Scarfolk is a town in north-west England that did not progress beyond 1979. The entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In Scarfolk children must not be seen OR heard, and everyone has to be in bed by 8 p.m. because they are perpetually running a slight fever..." Part-comedy, part-horror, part-satire, Discovering Scarfolk is the surreal account of a family trapped in the town. Through public information posters, news reports, books, tourist brochures and other ephermera, we learn about the darker side of childhood, school and society in Scarfolk. A massive cult hit online, Scarfolk re-creates with shiver-inducing accuracy and humour our most nightmarish childhood memories. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE RE-READ.

Author : George Edward Bateman Saintsbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11167594

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A History of Nineteenth Century Literature by George Edward Bateman Saintsbury Pdf

Author : Alex Morris,Robin Halstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : English newspapers
ISBN : 0141015284

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Historic Framley by Alex Morris,Robin Halstead Pdf

Featuring spoof newspaper stories from the archives, very silly archaeology and deluded local characters from history, this title uses material from the newspaper archives of The Framley Examiner - a previous text - to take an irreverent trip down memory lane.

Author : Adams Sherman Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102770955

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Principles of Rhetoric ... by Adams Sherman Hill Pdf

Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674202910

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A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut Pdf

In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

Author : S. Tomaiuolo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137008183

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Victorian Unfinished Novels by S. Tomaiuolo Pdf

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.

Author : Timothy Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108940390

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Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel by Timothy Gao Pdf

Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao proposes a history of virtual realities, stemming from the imaginary worlds created by novelists like Trollope, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens. Departing from established historical or didactic understandings of Victorian fiction, Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel recovers the period's fascination with imagined places, people, and facts. This text provides a short history of virtual experiences in literature, four studies of major novelists, and an innovative approach for scholars and students to interpret realist fictions and fictional realities from before the digital age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Elizabeth Ermarth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134980253

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The English Novel In History 1840-1895 by Elizabeth Ermarth Pdf

The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social practice as it conflicts with economic and feudal visions of social order. Through revisionary readings of familiar nineteenth-century texts The English Novel in History 1840-1895 takes a multidisciplinary approach to literary history. It highlights how narrative shifts from one construction of time to another and reformulates fundamental ideas of identity, nature and society. Elizabeth Ermarth discusses the range of novels alongside other cultural material, including painting, science, religious, political and economic theory. She explores the problems of how a society, as defined in democratic terms, can accommodate political, gender and class differences without resorting to hierarchy; and how narrowly conceived economic agendas compete with social cohesion. Students, advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists will find this text invaluable.