John Kendrick Bangs

The Idiot at Home (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: ''My dear,' said the Idiot one morning, as he and his good wife and the two little ones, Mollie and Tommy, sat down at the breakfast-table, 'now that we are finally settled in our new house I move we celebrate. Let's give a dinner to my old friends of Mrs. Smithers's; they were nice old people, and I should like to get them together again. I saw Dr. Pedagog in the city yesterday, and he inquired most affectionately, not to say anxiously, about the children.' 'Why should he be anxious about the children?' asked Mrs. Idiot, placidly, as she sweetened her husband's coffee. 'Does he suspect them of lacking completeness or variety?' The Idiot tapped his forehead significantly. 'He didn't know whether they take after you or after me, but I relieved his mind on that score,' he said. 'I told him that they didn't take after anybody that either of us ever knew. They have started in on a line of Idiocy that is entirely their own. He seemed very much pleased when I said that, and observed that he was glad to hear it.''

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783985318506
• Artikelnr.: 63585857

Autorenporträt

John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father Francis Nehemiah Bangs was a lawyer in New York City, as was his brother, Francis S. Bangs. He went to Columbia College from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine, Acta Columbia and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines. After graduation in 1883 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, Bangs entered Columbia Law School but left in 1884 to become Associate Editor of Life under Edward S. Martin. Bangs contributed many articles and poems to the magazine between 1884 and 1888. During this period, Bangs published his first books.