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There'll Always Be a Drayneflete, by Osbert Lancaster. A witty satire on the British way of life as seen through the architectural history of an imaginary country town (TIME, June 26).
There'll Always Be a Drayneflete, by Osbert Lancaster. A witty satire on the British way of life as seen through the architectural history of an imaginary country town (TIME, June 26).
The town of Drayneflete is not to be found on the usual maps of Britain for the very good reason that Osbert Lancaster made it up. To British Cartoonist Lancaster, nonetheless, Drayneflete (on the "limpid Drayne") is like so many real English towns that it might as well stand for...
Lancaster, a gnomish dandy who looks at the world across one of the most magnificent pair of mustachios still in private hands, sees the history of Drayneflete as a steady upward climb until it reaches the 18th Century. From then on, esthetic disaster follows esthetic disaster until the stage is...
Cartoonist Lancaster's sprightly, prattling text is as amusing as his drawings. As a whole it is a parody of the fly-blown local guide (revised edition, 1910), which is all that the tourist is sure to find in the average British town bookshop. It also unobtrusively manages to...