Dick Deadeye

Based on the drawings of Ronald Searle and the opera of Gilbert & Sullivan

Jonathan Cape Thirty Bedford Square London, hardcover, illustrated
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The Ultimate Secret has been stolen. The trouble is that it's so secret no one (not even the Modern Major General) knows what it is. Obviously it has to be got back and it takes all Dick Deadeye's artful guile to ultimately retrieve it.

It's been a century since Gilbert & Sullivan first dazzled audiences with their satirical musical wit. Now Ronald Searle has brought new life to their immortal characters Little Buttercup, Nanki-Poo, the Pirates, the Captain of the Pinafore, the Judge, the Sorcerer and many others in this delightful tale based on the full-length animated feature film 'Dick Deadeye'.

Jeremy Hornsby has given this book a teat which heroically guides the eye through a series of chases, escapes and escapades. Messrs G & S, who so merrily and mercilessly rocked late Victorian England, would relish the delightful discovery, in this gallimaufry of enjoyments, of how little has changed in the antics of public personalities since their day.

Designed by Derek Birdsall, this is a book not only for youngsters and Gilbert & Sullivan devotees, but for everyone who relishes a gentle upstaging of our own public and private attitudes today.