Charles L Graves: 7 books

This early work by Charles L. Graves was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'Mr. Punch's History of the Great War' is a classic work of intelligent and witty satire. It is complete with wonderful cartoon illustrations and tells the story...

THE first of the notable humorists of Irish life was William Maginn, one of the most versatile, as well as brilliant of Irish men of letters.

Drawing on the 1874-1892 archives of the iconic British satirical magazine Punch, the author uses excerpts and commentary to showcase Victorian attitudes about high politics, wages and work, the status of women, education, religion and the churches, London and its government, railways and inventions, crown and court, journalism and letters, and more.

This final volume brings us England, 1892-1914, according to the classic satirical magazine Punch. The author illustrates what the late Victorians and the Edwardians really thought about the passing of the old order, politics, capital and labor, education, the churches, the advance of women, inventions, fashion, and the arts, among other topics.

Punch, a weekly magazine of humor and satire founded in 1841, was a British institution. In this second volume, covering 1857-1874, Mr. Punch turns a jaundiced eye to foreign affairs and imperialism, social life, class distinctions, literature, music, drama, art, sports, and the changing role of women.

The archives of the satirical magazine Punch are a gold mine of insight and information about British—and especially Londoners’—opinions and attitudes. In this first of four volumes, covering 1841-1857, the author presents how Punch viewed money, education, religion, war and peace, the nobility, women, music, dress, and more.

Satire at its best, in both writing and cartoon. Intelligent, character forming and witty; grounded in recognition of the bounds of our human condition. (Goodreads)