| Shandygaff: A Number of Most Agreeable Inquirendoes Upon Life and Letters Interspersed With Short Stories and Skits Contributor(s): Morley, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0548029350 ISBN-13: 9780548029350 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $41.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: I wanted to call these exercises "Casual Ablutions," in memory of the immortal sign in the washroom of the British Museum, but my arbiter of elegance forbade it. You remember that George Gissing, homeless and penniless on London streets, used to enjoy the lavatory of the Museum Reading Room as a fountain and a shrine. But the flinty hearted trustees, finding him using the wash-stand for bath-tub and laundry, were exceeding wroth, and set up the notice these basins are for I would like to issue the same warning to the implacable reader: these fugitive pieces, very casual rinsings in the great basin of letters, must not be too bitterly resented, even by their publishers. To borrow O. Henry's joke, they are more demitasso than Tasso. -- Christopher Morley |
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| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Religion - Biblical Studies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.47 lbs) 340 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. |
