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Box 18 Spike Milligan

Box 18 By Spike Milligan

Box 18 by Spike Milligan


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Summary

This third wonderful anthology from the Spike Milligan archives uncovers an invaluable collection of previously unpublished material from one of Britain's best-loved comedians.

Box 18 Summary

Box 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan

This third wonderful anthology from the Spike Milligan archives uncovers an invaluable collection of previously unpublished material from one of Britain's best-loved comedians. The two previous anthologies, The Essential Spike Milligan and The Compulsive Spike Milligan, brought together the very best of his stories, cartoons, poems and correspondence, and reminded his fans how deserved his reputation was as a wildly inventive and original comedian. The Unpublished Spike Milligan - chosen and edited by Norma Farnes, Milligan's manager, biographer and close friend - is yet more essential and compulsive than these first two collections. It consists of the contents of 'Box 18', a file into which the highly prolific Spike would put his writing and drawings as they came to him, but which never came to be published. The book also draws on previously unseen diaries and letters. As both an original anthology and a personal legacy from a long-gone era, this is absolutely unmissable.

Box 18 Reviews

'The volume does have a peculiar fascination, its tone set by the initial photograph of an elderly Milligan gripping the famous red This Is Your Life book in front of him as if it might afford some kind of defence. Much of the volume reproduces actual pages of handwriting, or handtyping. Naked script and unedited work generate a strange intimacy as one of Britain's most famously depressed and mercurial human beings bounces from mood to mood, some of them apocalyptic. It's hard not to love the ones who make us laugh. And it's hard to get enough of what we love.' A.L.Kennedy, Guardian 'This book gives us the feeling of looking over Spike's shoulder as he worked and is the nearest we are ever likely to get to the real Spike Milligan. It most certainly complements Norma's earlier Spike: An Intimate Memoir. Most definitely a book for all lovers of Spike's work.' Mike Brown, Chairman of the Goon Show Preservation Society 'This is a book which any Spike Milligan fan pore over for hours.' The Oldie

About Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan was born in 1918. In the 1950s he wrote and performed in The Goon Show with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, and in the 1960s he had success as a stage and film actor. Active into his eighties, his one-man shows were always sell-out events. Milligan received lifetime achievement awards for writing and for comedy in 2000 and 2001. He died in 2002.

Additional information

GOR002397443
9780007241958
000724195X
Box 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
20061106
352
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - Box 18