Christmas crackers, being ten commonplace selections, 1970-1979

Christmas crackers, being ten commonplace selections, 1970-1979 by Norwich, John Julius. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780713913835.

For ten years John Julius Norwich has been sending out Christmas Crackers – a commonplace selection of prose and poetry – to his friends instead of a Christmas card. What had started off for him as a haphazard choice of literary odds and ends has now become a collection, something to be nurtured and cultivated. Here for the first time are all the Crackers in one volume, making a wholly delightful, amusing, and wide-ranging anthology. There is something here for every taste – from palindromes to epitaphs, from Pepys and Gibbon to Dorothy Parker. This is a book which no bedside table should be without.