Sauve Qui Peut
About this book
Imagine if P.G. Wodehouse was a diplomat: Durrell's hilarious foreign office sketches are
'sophisticated funny, but wonderful, and bonkers' (
Joanna Trollope)
'A rewarding cocktail based on two parts Wodehouse and one part Saki ... So much fun.'
New York Times
'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 for humour which I have never seen better used than in these stories.'
John Betjeman
After a lifetime serving that most delightfully British of institutions, the
Foreign Office, Antrobus can't resist musing over old times in Vulgaria at his London club - or should that be cringing ... His memories of farcical gaffes and comic diplomatic misadventures climax in a dramatic sword fight over a gorgeous new French 'ambassadress' - just one portrait of English etiquette, empire, and eccentricity
Celebrated British novelist, travel writer, and member of the real-life family portrayed in
The Durrells in Corfu
, Lawrence Durrell experienced the absurdities of mid-century diplomacy firsthand. His charming
jeu d'esprit about the
diplomatic corps is classic satire: but be warned: there's a point where laughter can become painful ...
'Antrobus is a delight to listen to, and his stories are wonderfully funny.'
Atlantic
'My goodness it is funny.'
The Daily Telegraph
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- 1: Sauve Qui Peut
- 2: What-ho on the Rialto!
- 3: High Barbary
- 4: Seraglios and Imbroglios
- 5: The Little Affair in Paris
- 6: Taking the Consequences
- 7: All to Scale
- 8: Aunt Norah
- 9: A Corking Evening
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright