The Comic History Of England: Prehistory-1760: Learn the absurd misadventures of the schemers, traitors, thieves, and murderous oligarchs that make up the British "nobility" from one of the founders of Punch

Experience history as a glorious and uproarious comedy of errors. Murderers, schemers, traitors, fools, thieves, oligarchs, and torturers make up the real history of Britain's "nobility" and their misdeeds, this Victorian bestseller was written by one of the founders of Punch narrated with wicked wit by Charles Featherstone.

Gilbert Abbott à Beckett turns his razor-sharp satire on the entire pageant of English history. This audacious and brilliantly funny work lampoons monarchs and milestone...