The Canadian Book of Snobs

by Branden Victoria and Victoria Branden

Victoria Branden has traced the history of Snobbery from its pre-human roots to our own era, in our own country, and has enunciated the definitive Theory of Snobbery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888821999
• ISBN13: 9780888821997
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Is it a shelving problem for this six star book?

I can't believe I'm the first to write a review of this book. I'm absolutely passionate about it. In fact, I think maybe I'm passionately in love with the author. I wish I could remember who recommended it to me, 'cause I'd even go so far as to send a handwritten thank you note to him/her/it/them. I suppose a problem might be the difficulty for librarians or bookstores in deciding where to shelve it. I guess there isn't an area for delightful, creative, knowledgeable, humorous, erudite, historically/politically astute rant. (See "expound.") If I had the time, I would probably have read it from cover to cover in one sitting. As it was, I thoroughly enjoyed it in snippets. Perhaps one has to be of a certain liberal (see dictionary definition) bent or some kind of linguistic snob to enjoy lapping it up. At any rate my copy is going next to my daughter and granddaughter.