Not getting it

[callmemadam]

This month's choice for the Cornflower Book Club is Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. Someone has commented that it's an interesting insight into the English public school and penal systems. Oh dear. I thought it was an exploded myth that Americans (I'm assuming) don't get satire.

Any other totally false impressions of English life to be found in literature? 'I didn't realise that in England rats and moles can talk', for instance?

Comments

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

Judging by the hordes we get round Bath who think Jane Austen wrote romances, there are quite a few who don't get satire!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Ah, poor deluded souls. Probably the same ones who can't see any difference between Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer. I love both but not for the same reasons.