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9780571277346
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Algemeen
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04-10-2012
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Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Faber & Faber
Auteur(s)
Stephen Pile
The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures
An intrepid selection from the original volumes
Stephen Pile
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€7,99
Last
year
Stephen
Pile
attempted
to
deliver
a
daring
blow
to
the
success
ethic
that
so
pervades
Western
culture.
To
his
dismay,
The
Ultimate
Book
of
Heroic
Failures
sold
many
copies
and
even
became
the
Sunday
Times
'Humour
Book
of
the
Year.' Nothing
daunted,
Stephen
returns
with
a
new
selection
which
brings
together
the
very
best
of
his
original
classic
titles
-
The
Book
of
Heroic
Failures
and
The
Return
of
Heroic
Failures. The
heartwarming
news
that
stays
news
is
that
there
really
is
no
limit
to
what
humanity
can
achieve,
as
we
move
onwards
and
downwards
to
ever
more
immortal
and
breathtaking
feats
of
incompetence.
The
Not
Terribly
Good
Book
of
Heroic
Failures
lovingly
chronicles
the
all-time
heroes
who
have
been
so
bad
at
things
that
they
shine
as
beacons
for
future
generations. It
is
hard
not
to
feel
boundless
admiration,
for
example,
for
the
fifty
Mexican
convicts
who
dug
an
escape
tunnel
out
of
their
jail
and
came
up
in
the
courtroom
where
many
of
them
had
been
sentenced.
Or
for
the
world's
worst
tourist,
who
spent
three
days
in
New
York
believing
he
was
in Rome.
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