Very Best of the Daily
Telegraph Books of Obituaries
Edited by Hugh Massingberd
Pan Books / Macmillan
June 2001
ISBN: 0-330-48470-2
428 pages
$22.50 paper original
The five Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries have been both a critical
and a popular success, winning plaudits from readers and reviewers alike.
Here, gathered in one volume, is the very best of the witty, waspish and
often wildly funny biographical short stories that are the mark of a Telegraph
Obituary. Together they offer a richly unpredictable medley of twentieth-century
lives, a deliciously idiosyncratic study in miniature, reflecting the last
century at its most picturesque, poignant and absurd.
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