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Стивен Ликок. Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day
Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PEACE, WAR, AND POLITICS
I.—Germany From Within Out
II.—Abdul Aziz Has His. An Adventure in the Yildiz Kiosk
III.—In Merry Mexico
IV.—Over the Grape Juice, or, The Peace Makers
V.—The White House from Without In
MOVIES & MOTORS, MEN & WOMEN
VI.—Madeline of the Movies— A Photoplay Done Back Into the Words
VII.—The Call of the Carbureter. or. Mr. Blinks and His Friends
VIII.—The Two Sexes, In Fives or Sixes—A Dinner Party Study
IX.—The Grass Bachelor’s Guide. With Sincere Apologies to the Ladies’ Periodicals
X.—Every Man and His Friends. Mr. Grunch’s Portrait Gallery (As edited from his private thoughts)
I. HIS VIEWS ON HIS EMPLOYER
II. THE MINISTER WHOSE CHURCH HE ATTENDS
III. HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE
IV. HIS HOSTESS AT DINNER
V. HIS LITTLE SON
XI.—More than Twice Told Tales. or. Every Man His Own Hero
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II
III
XII.—A Study in Still Life—My Tailor
FOLLIES IN FICTION
XIII.—Stories Shorter Still
I. AN IRREDUCIBLE DETECTIVE STORY
II. A COMPRESSED OLD ENGLISH NOVEL
III. A CONDENSED INTERMINABLE NOVEL
XIV.—The Snoopopaths or Fifty Stories in One
XV.—Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments: Serge the Superman. A Russian Novel (Translated, with a hand pump, out of the original Russian.)
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
TIMID THOUGHTS ON TIMELY TOPICS
XVI.—Are the Rich Happy?
XVII.—Humor As I See It
Отрывок из книги
Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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As he entered, an attendant who accompanied him, also in a uniform and a spiked helmet, called in a loud strident voice that resounded to the arches of the hall.
“His High Excellenz Feld Marechal von der Doppelbauch, Spezial Representant of His Majestät William II, Deutscher Kaiser and King of England!”
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