The Complete and Utter History of the World - According to Samuel Stewart Aged 9 (Hardcover)


When his teacher sets the class a history project, Sam cannot decide which bit of history he prefers, so decides to do all of it. His version of history is a rumbustious collection of half-remembered facts, assembled roughly in the right order, and glued together with alarmingly confident misunderstanding. And yet, this unreliable narrator somehow inadvertently gets to the heart of the matter, as when he sagely observes that in the end the Suffragettes' hunger striking paid off 'in the name of Female Emaciation, which has continued to this day', or in his explosion of the 'suppository that Shakespeare's plays were written by someone else of the same name'.

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When his teacher sets the class a history project, Sam cannot decide which bit of history he prefers, so decides to do all of it. His version of history is a rumbustious collection of half-remembered facts, assembled roughly in the right order, and glued together with alarmingly confident misunderstanding. And yet, this unreliable narrator somehow inadvertently gets to the heart of the matter, as when he sagely observes that in the end the Suffragettes' hunger striking paid off 'in the name of Female Emaciation, which has continued to this day', or in his explosion of the 'suppository that Shakespeare's plays were written by someone else of the same name'.

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Imprint

Short Books Ltd

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

September 2013

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Dimensions

186 x 128 x 16mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

96

ISBN-13

978-1-78072-183-5

Barcode

9781780721835

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LSN

1-78072-183-8



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