Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy
Book Excerpt: ...XVI THE FIRST NEWSPAPER XVII IN THE GOOD TIME AFTER THE WAR I.--Spoof. A Thousand-Guinea Novel. New! Fascinating! Perplexing!CHAPTER IReaders are requested to note that this novel has taken our special prize of a cheque for a thousand guineas. This alone guarantees for all intelligent readers a palpitating interest in every line of it. Among the thousands of MSS. which reached us--many of them coming in carts early in the morning, and moving in a dense phalanx, indistinguishable from the Covent Garden Market waggons; others pouring down our coal-chute during the working hours of the day; and others again being slipped surreptitiously into our letter-box by pale, timid girls, scarcely more than children, after nightfall (in fact many of them came in their night-gowns),--this manuscript alone was the sole one--in fact the only one--to receive the prize of a cheque of a thousand guineas. To other competitors we may have given, inadvertently perhaps, a bag of...
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Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy
Book Excerpt: ...XVI THE FIRST NEWSPAPER XVII IN THE GOOD TIME AFTER THE WAR I.--Spoof. A Thousand-Guinea Novel. New! Fascinating! Perplexing!CHAPTER IReaders are requested to note that this novel has taken our special prize of a cheque for a thousand guineas. This alone guarantees for all intelligent readers a palpitating interest in every line of it. Among the thousands of MSS. which reached us--many of them coming in carts early in the morning, and moving in a dense phalanx, indistinguishable from the Covent Garden Market waggons; others pouring down our coal-chute during the working hours of the day; and others again being slipped surreptitiously into our letter-box by pale, timid girls, scarcely more than children, after nightfall (in fact many of them came in their night-gowns),--this manuscript alone was the sole one--in fact the only one--to receive the prize of a cheque of a thousand guineas. To other competitors we may have given, inadvertently perhaps, a bag of...
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781022921924 |
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| Publisher: | Anson Street Press |
| Publication date: | 03/28/2025 |
| Pages: | 130 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.38(d) |
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