Antrobus Complete

Lawrence Durrell

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780571288816
• Edition: 0

The British Foreign Office is a timeless institution. Antrobus is the embodiment of everything that makes it what it is. His tales of diplomatic misadventure, accompanied by memorable and witty drawings, make a collection to cherish, for as long as the Foreign Office holds sway over far-flung British interests.

'Whatever wars there may be and whatever crises, there will still, please heaven, be the diplomatic corps, with its protocol and formalities and a field of humour which I have never seen better used than in these stories.' John Betjeman

Table of contents

• Cover
• LANDING PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• THE GHOST TRAIN
• CASE HISTORY
• JOTS AND TITTLES
• FRYING THE FLAG
• FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
• THE GAME’S THE THING
• WHITE MAN’S MILK
• IF GARLIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE …
• DRAGE’S DIVINE DISCONTENT
• WHERE THE BEE SUCKS …
• ‘NOBLESSE OBLIGE’
• CRY WOLF
• CALL OF THE SEA
• LA VALISE
• STIFF UPPER LIP
• THE IRON HAND
• SOMETHING À LA CARTE?
• THE SWAMI’S SECRET
• THE UNSPEAKABLE ATTACHÉ
• HIGH BARBARY
• SAUVE QUI PEUT
• THE LITTLE AFFAIR IN PARIS
• WHAT-HO ON THE RIALTO!
• ALL TO SCALE
• SERAGLIOS AND IMBROGLIOS
• AUNT NORAH
• TAKING THE CONSEQUENCES
• A CORKING EVENING
• SMOKE, THE EMBASSY CAT
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT