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- Herausgeber: Youcanprint
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, editor and satirist. This volume contains the THE INVENTIONS OF THE IDIOT of the famous humorous series "The Idiot", written by American author, editor and satirist John Kendrick Bangs, in which an odd character of simple thinking out-foxes those who think they are his better. While reading it, you won't be able to control yourself at times, and you will just laught outloud...
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Table of Contents
- I. THE CULINARY GUILD
II. A SUGGESTION FOR THE CABLE-CARS
III. THE TRANSATLANTIC TROLLEY COMPANY
IV. THE INCORPORATION OF THE IDIOT
V. UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
VI. SOCIAL EXPANSION
VII. A BEGGAR’S HAND-BOOK
VIII. PROGRESSIVE WAFFLES
IX. A CLEARING-HOUSE FOR POETS
X. SOME ELECTRICAL SUGGESTIONS
XI. CONCERNING CHILDREN
XII. DREAMALINE
THE INVENTIONS OF THE IDIOT
by
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
First digital edition 2018 by Anna Ruggieri
- I. THE CULINARY GUILD
It was before the Idiot’s marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his “alleged mind” on plans for the amelioration of the condition of the civilized.
“The trials of the barbarian are really nothing as compared with the tribulations of civilized man,” he said, as the waitress passed him a piece of steak that had been burned to a crisp. “In the Cannibal Islands a cook who would send a piece of broiled missionary to her employer’s table in this condition would herself be roasted before another day had dawned. We, however, must grin and bear it, because our esteemed landlady cannot find anywhere in this town a woman better suited for the labors of the kitchen than the blank she has had the misfortune to draw in the culinary lottery, familiarly known to us, her victims, as Bridget.”
