Lunatic at Large - Couverture rigide

Clouston, J. Storer

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1932416706 ISBN 13 : 9781932416701

Editeur : McSweeney's Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

The best-bred lunatics in England live in Clankwood, and Francis Beveridge is that community's newest resident. Rather than attending the asylum's Saturday dances, though, Beveridge goes on the lam in London. And thus, when a traveling German noble finds himself at the luxurious Hotel Mayonnaise without a guide to England's customs, who better to escort him than the amnesiac Englishman who materializes by his side? Beveridge provides the German with much useful knowledge, like giving a splendid tutor in bringing rail stations to a standstill, revealing the best way to fake a rabies attack, and showing how to crash London's most exclusive clubs ? quite literally. A much-loved Victorian comic masterpiece, this is the original anarchic novel that ushered in the age of Wodehouse and Waugh.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mr Francis Beveridge, as supplied by the obtiging candour of theB aron von Blitzenberg and the notes of Dr Escott, Dr Twiddel and his friend Robert Welsh make a kind of explanatory entry. They most effectually set the ball a-rolling, and so the story starts in a small room looking out on a very uninteresting London street. It was about three oclock on aN ovember afternoon, that season of fogs and rains and mud, when townspeople long for fresh air and hillsides, and country-folk think wistfully of the warmth and lights of a city, when nobody is satisfied, and everybody has a cold. Outside the window of the room there were a few feet of earth adorned with a low bush or two, a line of railings, a stonepaved street, and on the other side a long row of uniform yellow brick houses. The apartment itself was a modest chamber, containing a minimum of rented furniture and a flickering gas-stove. By a small easeful of medical treatises and a conspicuous stethoscope, the least experienced could see that it was labelled consulting-room.
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The Lunatic at Large is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McSweeney's Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1932416706
• ISBN 13: 9781932416701
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Éditeur: Collins Paul
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible