- Anecdotes, Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. [from old catalog], Humor, Law
A beautiful humorous book about law and sometimes the absurdity thereof. AP Herbert designs ridiculous cases such as is there a thing such as a reasonable woman (the reasonable man test for negligence) and is this country really free (fun is not described in law and as such the law takes a dim view of it) and then follows this case through an ostensible normal law report or court minutes to a hilarious conclusion.
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Comic, warm, plot-driven and cool.
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- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Alan Patrick Herbert
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 494
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd, International Polygonics, Ltd., Doubleday, Doran
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781842326220
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Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH (usually writing as A. P. Herbert or A. P. H.) (24 September 1890 – 11 November 1971) was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist. He was an independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford University for 15 years, five of which he combined with service in the Royal Navy. [Wikipedia]
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