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Paperback My Family and Other Animals. Book

ISBN: 0140013997

ISBN13: 9780140013993

My Family and Other Animals.

(Book #1 in the Corfu Trilogy Series)

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Format: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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The first book in Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 3 stars
Did not arrive as the picture shown

I'm a little disappointed with my book, I especially ordered this because I wanted the original cover that came with the book and that did not arrive with it. The shipping was great. It got here fairly quick, but what a disappointment.

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Rated 5 stars
It was a small book with big story

I was not happy when this book was so small and infantile looking; but I must admit i fell in love with the author. What a wonderful family, what a supportive education environment. A child could not have asked for better.

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Rated 5 stars
One of the funniest books of all time.

I usually only have time to read at night. I keep a book by my bedside and if I awaken in the middle of the night, instead of worrying, I read. This isn't the best book to use in this fashion. I have, on several occasions, awakened and thought, "I'll just read a few pages" only to find myself engulfed in oxygenated laughter that has kept me up for the duration of the night. I don't know when I've laughed out loud so often...

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Rated 5 stars
Quite simply the funniest book I have read.

As a young boy I was forced, with some considerable reluctance, to read 'My Family and Other Animals' by one of teachers at my school in England, 'in order to improve my vocabulary'. All is forgiven, Mr Cox, for within my rather battered copy lurked, without doubt, the most hilarious account of familial eccentricity, and light-hearted feuding that I have ever come across. The book, as Mr Durrell explains in introduction,...

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Rated 5 stars
Guaranteed to bring a smile to your face!

This book is my secret weapon against depression and the blues. I have never been able to read it without collapsing into helpless laughter (and I have lost count how many times I have read it!). In the book, GD describes his boyhood sojourn on the Greek island of Corfu and while the various animals and birds are fun, the most interesting specimens are the humans. Start with GD's own family, a wonderfully eccentric English...

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