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Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy
Stephen Leacock
Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy
Stephen Leacock
Book Excerpt: ... XVI THE FIRST NEWSPAPER XVII IN THE GOOD TIME AFTER THE WAR I.--Spoof. A Thousand-Guinea Novel. New! Fascinating! Perplexing!CHAPTER IReaders are requested to note that this novel has taken our special prize of a cheque for a thousand guineas. This alone guarantees for all intelligent readers a palpitating interest in every line of it. Among the thousands of MSS. which reached us--many of them coming in carts early in the morning, and moving in a dense phalanx, indistinguishable from the Covent Garden Market waggons; others pouring down our coal-chute during the working hours of the day; and others again being slipped surreptitiously into our letter-box by pale, timid girls, scarcely more than children, after nightfall (in fact many of them came in their night-gowns), --this manuscript alone was the sole one--in fact the only one--to receive the prize of a cheque of a thousand guineas. To other competitors we may have given, inadvertently perhaps, a bag of..
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 21 stycznia 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9798686870970 |
Wydawcy | Independently Published |
Strony | 126 |
Wymiary | 152 × 229 × 7 mm · 176 g |
Język | English |
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