Henry Howarth Bashford

• Feb-1988
• / General Fiction
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It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent cond...

• Nov-2014
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My dear Bob, Your letter of this morning, like the cream that it was, rose naturally to the surface of the little pile of correspondence that awaited me on the breakfast-table; and if I didn't read it then, and am only answering it now, in front of m...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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The name of the town doesn't really matter; but it was a big town in the middle of the country; and the first of these adventures happened to a little girl whose Christian name was Marian. She was only seven when it happened to her, so that it was ra...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the...

• / Literary
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A sublime ferocious farce. —The New Yorker. Incomparable ... a wonderful slapstick satire on hypocrisy. —New Statesman. One of the great comic novels of the twentieth century. —Anthony Burgess. Meet our memoirist, Augustus Carp,...