Alan P. Herbert Boeken
24 september 1890 – 11 november 1971
A. P. Herbert was een Britse humorist en romanschrijver wiens werk vaak maatschappelijke paradoxen en absurditeiten onderzoekt met scherpe humor en ironie. Zijn schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een speels taalgebruik en een scherp inzicht in de menselijke natuur, wat lezers zowel amusement als stof tot nadenken biedt. Door middel van zijn romans en toneelstukken ontleedt hij meesterlijk subtiele maar belangrijke maatschappelijke commentaren, terwijl hij tegelijkertijd pleit voor rechtsherziening.
Topsy's extensive social life, her adventures in and out of the House of Commons (and her audacious attempts to legislate for the Enjoyment of the People), and her wartime activity as the mother of twins, were recorded faithfully by the great comic writer A P Herbert.
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"...If a theatrical manager wants to do a play about the '60s or '70s the first thing he does is to look up the old Punch volumes. There he sees exactly how our fathers spoke, and dressed, and looked. If the Cochran, or the Ziegfeld, of 2000 A.D. wants to do a play about 1952 A.D. I do not think he will get much help from the most popular comic artists of today. He will probably decide that the less said about his subhuman ancestors the better. But the main purpose of a comic artist, without doubt, is to be comic; and "If I do that," he may well say, "what are you complaining about?" Hastily, I agree, I accept, I withdraw. It was only an old chap maundering to himself. I salute this work and wish it well; and on behalf of Punch and his merry men may I proclaim their thanks for the compliment that America has paid them in supposing that Britain can be funny too." (from foreword by A. P. Herbert)
