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Originally Posted by CRussel
Well, for those of us who live in Canada, what was the book? (And if it's on Kobo, and legit, we can certainly go with that and folks can convert. Assuming, of course, that it is selected.)
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It's
England, Their England by A.G. Macdonell. It won the James Tait Black aware (Britain's oldest literary prize) in 1933 and is on the Guardian's list of a thousand must-read novels. Here's the
Faded Page link.
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Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father’s will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who, he is told, have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit and the memory of Lord Nelson....
What follows is one of the funniest social satires ever written. Whether Cameron is haplessly participating in a village cricket match, being shown around an exclusive golf course, or trying to watch a rugby match in the thick London fog, his affectionately bemused portrait of his new countrymen is a joy to read.
Reminiscent of the gentle wit of P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome K. Jerome, England, Their England offers a delightful portrait of Britain in the 1920s.
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The only Kindle edition ($2.99) is obviously a bootleg; similarly, Kobo US has three editions, I think. Any copy at Kobo Canada is obviously legit! But there's no point in paying Kobo Canada for something you can get for free at Faded Page.
I know Amazon bootlegs aren't my problem, but I don't like to see pirates profit from their larceny. We don't have a rule requiring an ebook edition, much less a US ebook edition (and have had a selection that didn't, one of my favorite choices in fact), but I figure it's not in the spirit of the club to nominate something that's legal in my home market only in pbook.
Which doesn't mean a loyal Canadian couldn't nominate it!
ETA: Legal in Life + 70 as well as Life + 50