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The Pirates!
In an Adventure With Communists

by Gideon Defoe



      I love a laugh (don’t we all) and in this third entry in the popular The Pirates series there are quite a few to be had. It’s a simple idea like all the best ones that relies on anachronisms and absurdity and works very well. We all know that pirates per se weren’t around in the early 19th century, and neither was Wagner’s Ring Cycle being performed, and what about Karl Marx? But who cares when it is as much fun as this. Join the Pirate Captain and his vaguely described crew (the pirate with a scarf, the pirate with gout, the pirate with a nut allergy etc) along with Jennifer a girl, as they try to get to the bottom of the appeal of Communism and have a good time into the bargain.

This is a small book, rather nicely illustrated in the right places (there is even a puzzle maze to do involving Marx’s beard) and containing the same sort of clean but irrepressible humor as something like Monty Python or The Goodies. Trying to describe what it is about is rather pointless as although there is a plot, the whole point of reading it is to have a good laugh. I did, and so probably will you.

The Book

Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Orion)
14 September 2006
Hardback
0297848674
Humor/Historical -1840 -London and Paris
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2006
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