Cover art for The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures
Published
Faber & Faber, November 2012
ISBN
9780571277339
Format
Hardcover, 512 pages
Dimensions
20.4cm × 13.4cm × 2.6cm

The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures An Intrepid Selection from the Original Volumes by

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This selection brings together the very best of Stephen Pile's original classic titles - "The Book of Heroic Failures" and "The Return of Heroic Failures". It lovingly chronicles the all-time heroes who have been so bad at things that they shine as beacons for future generations.

It is hard not to feel boundless admiration, for example, for the fifty Mexican convicts who dug an escape tunnel out of their jail and came up in the courtroom where many of them had been sentenced. Or for the world's worst tourist, who spent three days in New York believing he was in Rome.

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