English Pharisees, French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters
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National pride turns even a bundle of asparagus into an argument in Max O'Rell's comic essays on English and French habits. A shopkeeper praises homegrown goods while dismissing foreign ones, and visitors mistake a brief stay abroad for knowledge of an entire country. These small encounters establish the collection's method: familiar customs become occasions to examine prejudice, vanity and the ease of judging one's neighbours.
The sketches move from travel misunderstandings to portraits of social types, including the French snob who alters his name to suggest grand ancestry. O'Rell also compares attitudes toward achievement, asking why character carries such weight in English estimates of success. His sweeping national portraits belong to the humour of their period, while his opening argument challenges the assumption that one people is better than another.
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Book facts
- Author
- Max O'Rell
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Satire
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