Product Description
This volume was published in 1895.
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author and
satirist, and the creator of modern "Bangsian" fantasy, the
school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially
in the afterlife. *
*.....summary from wikipedia
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Below is a review of "The Idiot" from: libreriauniversitaria.it ---
Even in a house of odd characters, a fellow can have his say. The Idiot may say the wrong things at meals, but he's smart to live where he can speak his mind.
The Idiot, you see, lives in Mrs. Pedagog's boarding house. She wasn't always Mrs. Pedagog, but then she married Mr. Pedagog.
And if the Idiot were a flatterer he'd live in a flat, not a house full of opinions.
These lively opinions are hammered at the Idiot's fellow meal-mates, the School-Master, the Bibliomaniac, Mr. Whitechoker, Mr. Warren the Poet, the Lawyer, Mr. Brief, the Doctor and the others.
Where does the Idiot come up with his ideas he tends to share at breakfast? He eats Welsh rarebit, says John Kendrick Bangs, and dreams 'em!
You'll be dreaming up ideas too after reading this delightful compendium of conversations over the clatter of cutlery by a beloved American humorist.
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Also, from the New York Times Review, March 23 1895:
"Mr. Bangs continues in the manner of Oliver Wendell Holmes with a difference to report the conversations at the breakfast table in the boarding house of Mrs. Pedagog, who was formerly Mrs. Smithers, and The Idiot is still, as it were, the protagonist. One must be just in the mood for nonsense to properly appreciate Mr. Bangs's humor."
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Other books by this author:
- The Inventions of the Idiot
- The Genial Idiot
- The Enchanted Type-Writer
- Mr. Munchausen
- Over the Plum Pudding
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author and
satirist, and the creator of modern "Bangsian" fantasy, the
school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially
in the afterlife. *
*.....summary from wikipedia
...............................................................................
Below is a review of "The Idiot" from: libreriauniversitaria.it ---
Even in a house of odd characters, a fellow can have his say. The Idiot may say the wrong things at meals, but he's smart to live where he can speak his mind.
The Idiot, you see, lives in Mrs. Pedagog's boarding house. She wasn't always Mrs. Pedagog, but then she married Mr. Pedagog.
And if the Idiot were a flatterer he'd live in a flat, not a house full of opinions.
These lively opinions are hammered at the Idiot's fellow meal-mates, the School-Master, the Bibliomaniac, Mr. Whitechoker, Mr. Warren the Poet, the Lawyer, Mr. Brief, the Doctor and the others.
Where does the Idiot come up with his ideas he tends to share at breakfast? He eats Welsh rarebit, says John Kendrick Bangs, and dreams 'em!
You'll be dreaming up ideas too after reading this delightful compendium of conversations over the clatter of cutlery by a beloved American humorist.
...............................................................................
Also, from the New York Times Review, March 23 1895:
"Mr. Bangs continues in the manner of Oliver Wendell Holmes with a difference to report the conversations at the breakfast table in the boarding house of Mrs. Pedagog, who was formerly Mrs. Smithers, and The Idiot is still, as it were, the protagonist. One must be just in the mood for nonsense to properly appreciate Mr. Bangs's humor."
...............................................................................
Other books by this author:
- The Inventions of the Idiot
- The Genial Idiot
- The Enchanted Type-Writer
- Mr. Munchausen
- Over the Plum Pudding
