Rattlin the Reefer - Couverture souple

Howard, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1515298140 ISBN 13 : 9781515298144

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

First of all Rattlin the Reefer is a luxurious feast of words. "...for the rain is thrashing the streets till they actually look white, and the kennel before us is swelled into a formidable, and hardly fordable brook. That kennel is the stream of life — and a dirty and a weary one it is, if we may judge by the old gentleman’s looks. All is hurried into that common sewer, the grave! What bubbles float down it! Everything that is fairly in the middle of the stream seems to sail with it, steadily and triumphantly — and many a filthy fragment enters the sewer with a pomp and dignity not unlike the funeral obsequies of a great lord" Life of an individual is but a soap bubble. All the heroic deeds are gorgeously burlesque and all the exotic adventures and misadventures are grotesquely farcical. If this novel were written these days it would be called postmodern.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the volume I am going to write, it is my intention to adhere rigidly to the truth—this will be bonâ fide an autobiography—and, as the public like novelty, an autobiography without an iota of fiction in the whole of it, will be the greatest novelty yet offered to its fastidiousness. As many of the events which will be my province to record, are singular and even startling, I may be permitted to sport a little moral philosophy, drawn from the kennel in Lower Thames Street, which may teach my readers to hesitate ere they condemn as invention mere matters of absolute, though uncommon fact.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1515298140
• ISBN 13: 9781515298144
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124