How Amusing! And a Lot of Other Fables

Title

en_US How Amusing! And a Lot of Other Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US By Denis Mackail

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:54Z

en_US 2003-05

en_US 1929

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1929

Abstract

en_US Here is the American version of a book I have already catalogued in its English version from Heinemann in the same year. Both versions were printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey. It is a book of short stories very typical of life as literature depicts it in the 1920's. The two I read were the first and last: As You Dislike It and How Amusing! The stories are similar. They consist mostly of bright banter among the bored rich, often about the subject of getting married. The only positive quality in life is anything's amusingness. There is a good twist at the end of the final story. Bettine has spent a day full of short encounters with several different men, each of whom proposes marriage and each of whom loses something valuable in pursuit of her. Her mother checks on her as she has come to bed very late; the mother wonders why she has missed important appointments during the day. And you had an amusing time, I hope? she asks. Bettine sits up in bed with a jerk. Amusing! she snorts. It's been the most boring day I've ever had in my whole life! I am afraid that I would be tempted to say the same about the two stories that I read. I will not again confuse this with a fable book!

Identifier

en_US 5098 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80686

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Houghton Mifflin Company

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ3.M1915 Hw 1929a

en_US Tangential

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole