The best-bred lunatics in England live in Clankwood, and Francis Beveridge is that community's newest resident. Rather than attending the asylum's Saturday dances, though, Beveridge goes on the lam in London. And thus, when a traveling German noble finds himself at the luxurious Hotel Mayonnaise without a guide to England's customs, who better to escort him than the amnesiac Englishman who materializes by his side? Beveridge provides the German with much useful knowledge, like giving a splendid tutor in bringing rail stations to a standstill, revealing the best way to fake a rabies attack, and showing how to crash London's most exclusive clubs — quite literally. A much-loved Victorian comic masterpiece, this is the original anarchic novel that ushered in the age of Wodehouse and Waugh.
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J. Storer Clouston, OBE, the son of physician Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an old Orkney family. After being educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh and Magdalen College, Oxford he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer. Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s.
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Thank you, Dave Eggers and your magazine, for re-introducing modern readers to this hilarious tale of a sweetly madcap lunatic. I can hear echoes of the lunatic in some of P G Wodehouse's tales. Great Britain's upper class come in for only a modest ribbing and, to reassure those with sensitive sensibilities, mental illness is not made fun of.
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INTO the history of Mr Francis Beveridge, as supplied by the obliging candour of the Baron von Blitzenberg and the notes of Dr Escott, Dr Twiddel and his friend Robert Welsh make a kind of explanatory entry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Alicia, Sir Richard, Francis Beveridge, Lady Grillyer, Baron Rudolph von Blitzenberg, Lady Hilton, Baron von Blitzenberg, Brierley Park, Colonel Savage, Lady Muriel, Alexander Butler, Ashditch Junction, British Museum, Francis Bunker, Lord Tulliwuddle New!
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INTO the history of Mr Francis Beveridge, as supplied by the obliging candour of the Baron von Blitzenberg and the notes of Dr Escott, Dr Twiddel and his friend Robert Welsh make a kind of explanatory entry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Alicia, Sir Richard, Francis Beveridge, Lady Grillyer, Baron Rudolph von Blitzenberg, Lady Hilton, Baron von Blitzenberg, Brierley Park, Colonel Savage, Lady Muriel, Alexander Butler, Ashditch Junction, British Museum, Francis Bunker, Lord Tulliwuddle New!
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