Augustus Carp, Esq., Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Sir Henry Bashford, Fiction, Literary, Classics, Ac, (Paperback)

from P_S_Patrick

If the book had lived up to the hyperbolic preface then I would have been well pleased with it. I don't know whether or not I was in the wrong frame of mind when I read it, or whether it just isn't my type of humour, but I was acutely disappointed with this book. The character is thoroughly disli...

from JBD1

Thoroughly funny at a few moments, but mostly only mildly amusing. Doesn't quite live up to the hype in the introduction, alas.

from lightparade

Quite simply, one of the funniest books ever written. Pious hypocrisy was never exploded so effectively (or at least won't be until we get to read Tony Blair's autobiography). A parade of Xtian grotesques, none as ghastly as the smug, superior, cant-ridden narrator. Essential reading.

from miketroll

Much funnier than Diary of a Nobody, but much less well known. Funny, that.

from wjdonaldson

A splendid & hilarious take-off of religious pomposity & hypocrisy in the early 20th century. (But perhaps just as funny nowadays?) Written by none other than Sir Henry Howarth Bashford, Physician to King George VI. If you like George & Weedon Grossmith's "Diary of a Nobody", you'll enjoy Augustu...