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This is a seminal comic masterpiece of our time, now published for the first time in Penguin. The monarchy has been dismantled. When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing...
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This is a seminal comic masterpiece of our time, now published for the first time in Penguin. The monarchy has been dismantled. When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else?
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- Nakladatel: Penguin Books Ltd
- Kód:
- Rok vydání: 2002
- Jazyk: Angličtina
- Vazba: Taschenbuch
- Počet stran: 288
- Šířka balení: 12.8 cm
- Výška balení: 19.4 cm
- Hloubka balení: 2.4 cm
- Váha balení: 199 g
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ve své knize nabízí fantastickou vizi toho, co by se stalo, kdyby v Anglii v dubnu 1992 zvítězila ve volbách levicová republikánská strana … Monarchii vystřídá republika, královská rodina se zabydluje v chudinské čtvrti a začíná od nuly … Učí se jak otvírat konzervy, kde si mohou koupit toaletní papír, jak vyjít s penězi i se sousedy ....