The Complete and Utter History of the World According to Samuel Stewart Aged 9 [electronic resource]
Burton, Sarah2014
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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 our endearing narrator somehow inadvertently hits the nail on the head every time – as when he sagely observes that the Suffragettes’ hunger strikes paid off ‘in the name of Female Emaciation’, or that before Shakespeare came along ‘everyone had been a bit rubbish at poetry’ (notwithstanding ‘Jeffrey Chortler, saviour of the Middle Agers’). Sam takes us from Ancient Egypt right up to Last Week with the flair of a bright-eyed nine-year-old. Rumour has it he is now working on an even more ambitious tome, The Entire World and Everything In It.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Short Books, 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781780721842
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English
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2755871