The Mouse That Roared Boxed Set

The Mouse That Roared #0-4

by Leonard Wibberley

A five-book series chronicling the humorous adventures of Grand Fenwick -- the tiny, backwards country that declared war on the United States, beat everyone in the Space Race to the moon, wreaked havoc on the stock market, and solved the world's oil crisis. Plus a prequel about the country's humble origins.BOOK 1: THE MOUSE THAT ROAREDIn Leonard Wibberley's classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare war on the United States and lose to get foreign aid - but things don't go according to plan. The Mouse That Roared was made into a successful feature film in 1959 starring Peter Sellers.BOOK 2: THE MOUSE ON THE MOONA wonderfully funny sequel to The Mouse That Roared.The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the world's smallest country, whose army of 20 longbow men defeated the United States in The Mouse that Roared is back again.While the Americans and the Soviets are racing to claim the moon, Grand Fenwick's famous physicist makes the perfect rocket fuel from the zingiest wine in the world and the SPACE RACE IS ON!BOOK 3: THE MOUSE ON WALL STREETGloriana XII--The Original Wolf of Wall Street. Grand Fenwick is at it again, this time upsetting the world's economy.The tiny country's secret weapon this time is its Grand Pinot chewing gum. When sales boom during an anti-smoking campaign, Grand Fenwick's investment is suddenly worth millions.In an attempt to rid Grand Fenwick of its crippling budget surplus, Duchess Gloriana XII decides the stock market is the perfect place to lose it all. Instead, she makes millions more and ends up wreaking havoc on the world economy. Never has "the money game" been more deliciously exposed than in this ingenious satire. BOOK 4: THE MOUSE THAT SAVED THE WESTThe fourth book in the bestselling The Mouse That Roared series brings the Duchy of Grand Fenwick's most extraordinary achievement yet--the defeat of OPEC and the happy solution to the world's oil crisis, which came about through the best that international diplomacy has to duplicity and dumb luck. It all began when the Count of Mountjoy, the prime minister of Grand Fenwick, was unable to get a hot bath because of the fuel shortage...BOOK 5: BEWARE OF THE MOUSE (A Prequel to The Mouse That Roared)Set in the year 1450, the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick, ruled by the benevolent and noble Sir Roger and armed with its army of expert longbowmen, had existed peacefully without threat of invasion for decades. But when a rascally Irish Knight stumbles across its borders with news that the French were set to attack and that they had a new weapon of mass destruction called "the cannon," the Irishman and Sir Roger must find a way to drop their differences and fight together, a feat made even more difficult when Sir Roger's daughter, the Lady Matilda becomes unduly enamored in the Irish newcomer.

Genres: Fiction

984 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 12, 2016

About the author

Also wrote under his full name Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley and under
Patrick O'Connor as well as pseudonyms Christopher Webb and Leonard Holton

Reviews

[Charles van Buren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review of Kindle edition
Publication date: July 12, 2016
Publisher: The Duchy of Grand Fenwick
Language: English
ASIN: B01IE406IO
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 226109
783 pages

This review is of the five book e-book set available from Amazon. I will post reviews as I read each volume.

I first read THE MOUSE THAT ROARED when I was in high school - The Cold War, the Space Race, the Arms Race, the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis. The satire was timely. The humor is timeless. The satire now seems almost innocent and even a little naive in light of all that has happened in the world since this book's original publication in 1955. In those days, the idea that the little countries of the world, given the power, could end or at least mitigate the threat of nuclear annihilation was interesting. Wibberley presented the idea in an interesting and humorous way as one of the main themes of his book. Wibberley himself was not so simple. In the sequel, the plan isn't working. However, even in the sequel, he doesn't write of the problems which the world has now had with little countries, madmen and various extremists. It has turned out that far from wishing to end the threat of nuclear annihilation, some of these people want the ability to threaten their neighbors and the entire world with that annihilation or the annihilation of chemical and biological weapons. In the 1950's I suppose that the threat posed by radical, activist Islam seemed a part of history, not a thing of the modern world. Just being citizens of a little country does not give a people any sort of virtue. History is full of accounts of nasty people in small countries or tribes but before the rapid advances in technology few of those people had the ability to seriously threaten many people outside their immediate neighbors and their own citizens. Being "modern" is no virtue at all as the people of Grand Fenwick would happily tell you.

Anyway, much of the satire still has bite and the broad humor of the book is still very funny. There was also a very funny 1959 movie starring the late, great Peter Sellers based upon the novel.

THE MOUSE ON THE MOON
This 1962 sequel to the 1955, THE MOUSE THAT ROARED is a science fiction novel of humanity's attempts to reach the moon. Or it is a novel of satire of people, politics and government. Or it is a scathing tale of human weaknesses. Or a touching story of human foibles. Or of human genius. Or a tale of the people of Grand Fenwick attempting to buy an Imperial Russian Sable coat for their beloved duchess. Or the subtle maneuvering of the duchy's prime minister and leading diplomat to get modern plumbing and hot water. It is all of these things as well as being a very funny book featuring the cast of characters from THE MOUSE THAT ROARED. A few new ones are introduced including a pair of Bobolinks who innocently contribute to heating up the space race. A really funny book which was the basis of a second funny movie about Grand Fenwick. Some critics believe that neither the book nor the movie are as good as THE MOUSE THAT ROARED. I like both books and both movies.

I downloaded this boxed set of five books via Kindle Unlimited.

[Joyce A. Wendeln · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Mouse That Roared , Before And After

Like some popular movies that I shall not name but have Millennium Calvin's in them. This boxed set begins with the story we all loved when it was in movie form. It progresses to solve world problems in 3 additional books and wraps up with a prequel of the fight that caused the ill will betwixt Grand Fenwick and France.

[DebsBooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Discovering three sequels and a prequel to The Mouse That Roared is a delightful surprise—each one as wickedly witty as the first!