by Spike Milligan · Fourth Estate · tapa dura · ISBN 9780007155095
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«The Essential Spike Milligan» is the anthology of Spike Milligan compiled by Alexander Games, published by Fourth Estate in hardcover (320 pages).
The anthology brings together excerpts from celebrated Spike Milligan books, such as 'Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall' and 'Puckoon', along with scripts from 'The Goon Show'. It also includes letters and writings about depression, along with poems and children's stories that reveal Milligan's absurd humor and imagination.
The volume opens with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. Originally published in 2002, it is the first posthumous anthology of Milligan's work.
For those seeking an introduction to Spike Milligan's humor or wanting to rediscover a classic of absurd comedy.
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Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan was an Anglo-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life.
