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Стивен Ликок. The Dry Pickwick and Other Incongruities
The Dry Pickwick and Other Incongruities
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THE DRY PICKWICK
England’s Greatest Writer Adapted to America’s Greatest Legislation
THE REVISED OR DRY PICKWICK
RATIFICATION OF THE NEW NAVAL DISAGREEMENT (An Extract from the Annual Register of 1933)
A MEDIÆVAL HOLE IN ONE. WET GOLF IN DRY HISTORY
THE GREAT WAR AS RECORDED BY MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. EXTRAORDINARY WAR PLAY DISCOVERED AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON
IF THE GANDHI HABIT SPREADS. WHAT IF ALL THE POLITICIANS STRIP TO THE WAIST
I. Gandhi in London
II. Snowden goes One Better
III. Ramsay MacDonald Joins
IV. And the House of Commons
V. Mahatma Briand Gandhies France
VI. And America—
IN PRAISE OF THE AMERICANS. THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY WRITING THE FIRST STORY IN THIS BOOK
ONCE TO EVERYMAN
CONFESSIONS OF A SODA FIEND. WRITTEN FROM A CONDEMNED CELL
A GUIDE TO THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN TOURISTS
REVISED EDITION
WHY THE NEXT WAR DIDN’T HAPPEN. AN ATTEMPT TO REASSURE THE PUBLIC
A, B, AND C. after twenty years
BREAKFAST AT THE SMITHS’ A LITTLE STUDY IN THE BEAUTY OF CHEERFULNESS
THE PERFECT OPTIMIST. OR DAY-DREAMS IN A DENTAL CHAIR
CHILDREN’S POETRY REVISED
With One Eye on the Eighteenth Amendment
“TUM AND PLAY DOLF” WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN MINIATURE GOLF GETS IN ITS EFFECT ON THE HUMAN MIND
HO FOR HAPPINESS. A PLEA FOR LIGHTER AND BRIGHTER LITERATURE
TENNIS AT THE SMITHS’ A SIMPLE STATEMENT OF THE FACTS
A BUTLER OF THE OLD SCHOOL
As Transformed and Enlarged under the Eighteenth Amendment
THE FLYING CARPET. BUT WHERE COULD IT FLY TO, NOW?
COME AND SEE OUR TOWN. HOW THE VISITOR FEELS WHEN SHOWN AROUND
INFLATION AND DEFLATION or FLATION IN AND DE
L’ENVOI: WHAT NEXT? A GLIMPSE INTO OUR ULTIMATE FUTURE
