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Oxford Oddfellows & Funny Tales [Buy it!] | Richard Breen, Suresh Mudannayake | USD 4.92 (Sat Jun 1 07:21:17 2024) | Abebooks | Book Express (NZ) | ISBN10: 1901374009, ISBN13: 9781901374001, [publisher: Penny Publishing Limited] Softcover 92 pages.This book is a light-hearted look at the historical developments of the world famous Oxford Colleges, their extremely peculiar traditions, and the eccentric people who inhabited them . The stories have been brilliantly illustrated by Holte, with hi s characteristic cartoons and idiosyncratic sense of humour; from Sir Richard Burton, who used a hot poker to defend his right to support a monstrous moustache, to Dr Ellington who remains foreve r at the college carved in to a gargoyle, by a sculptor bribed by one of his students [Wellington, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 2000] |