Leonard Wibberley
Overview
Irish people
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-born author who spent most of his life in the United States
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. Wibberley published, under his name and also three pen-names, over one hundred books. He is best known for five satirical novels about an imaginary country Grand Fenwick
Grand Fenwick
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a tiny fictional country created by Leonard Wibberley in a series of comedic novels beginning with The Mouse That Roared , which was later made into a film.-History and topography:...
--particularly for the first of these, The Mouse That Roared
The Mouse That Roared
The Mouse That Roared is a 1955 Cold War satirical novel by Irish-American writer Leonard Wibberley, which launched a series of satirical books about an imaginary country in Europe called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick...
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Wibberley's adult and juvenile publications cut across the categories of fictional novels, history and biography.
Quotations
Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment
pg 5
a Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want
pg 5
I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.
pg 145