Laughter In A Damp Climate Author:Egon Larsen, Eric Lindfield It might seem against all reason that so much incomparable humor should emanate from the British Isles - where often even the native can only differentiate between winter and summer by reference to the calendar. Then again, perhaps only a very strong sense of humor can carry the Englishman through, say, his annual chilly and rainy August vacatio... more »n. LAUGHTER IN A DAMP CLIMATE spans seven hundred years of humorous writing in the British Isles - from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Here are the merrymakers, the satirist, the cartoonist, the humor essayists - the be enjoyed without any pretension; yet for those who take their laughter seriously, the book provides a highly congenial study of the fascinating changes which humor in Britain has undergone through the ages.« less
It seems unassuming when you first have the anthology in hand, but then, you open it up and there's 700 years of British humor to peruse! From the middle ages to 1960, there's something for everyone.