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 (DIR) Post #B5LbOIWHZvR4Ps92Z6 by gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
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       Our latest newsletter listed a selection of March’s notable and interesting titles. Among them, we can highlight "1066 and All That" by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman.It's a comic parody of English history, mocking how schoolchildren misremember facts. It reduces centuries of events to "Good Things," "Bad Things," and memorably mangled kings, battles, and causes — hilariously unreliable by design.https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/#books #literature
       
 (DIR) Post #B5LeKHtSGT8HB6lMem by astrolabe_cat@mathstodon.xyz
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       @gutenberg_org I adore this book! We all grew up on it, in my family. Good Things are part of our vocabulary. Muddling up Albert and Alfred, Maud and Matilda. Imagining John of Gaunt as a rather emaciated grandee. Harold hairbrush.Ah, good times. Time for a reread, methinks.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Lk0KAShNMcAIa8NE by sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online
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       @gutenberg_org I love this book; it was introduced in a first-form English lesson, and messed up the following year's history lessons. I still use some of its phrases.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5LtlWcr64zY06RczQ by djr2024@mastodon.social
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       @gutenberg_org Like any really good parody it contains uncomfortable albeit satirical statements. . My favourite one is ' War with Zulus. Zulus Exterminated. Peace with Zulus'
       
 (DIR) Post #B5M0OpE6TORMhzzRKq by Ralph@hear-me.social
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       @gutenberg_org You might also like:https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/winter-2014-four-decades-of-classic-essays/history-past-life-reeked-with-joy/(and now I am the algorithm)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5MSYBJeVmYWXapqZk by dearlove@mathstodon.xyz
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       @gutenberg_org Hilariously unreliable - but you need to know quite a lot of history to get all the jokes. (And it's the first reference in the actual history book I'm reading now.)