The invention of the idiot E-Book

John Kendrick Bangs

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

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...

Leseprobe

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.”