Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by George Bellows, Ernest Lawson and Childe Hassam. Short pieces on domestic warfare, office life and the impossibility of being an adult, by the man who made the modern American humorous essay. The title is ironic and the essays are about defeat. This edition binds 58 plates of painting, 1888–1929, among them Charles Dana Gibson, Edvard Munch and Louis Charlot, alongside the three parts of the text.
Inglés
Malvina of Brittany : A Comedy of the Uncanny
Count Bunker : Being a Bald Yet Veracious Chronicle of Two Gentlemen
The Voice of the City : Further Stories of the Four Million
The Dolly Dialogues : Twenty London Dialogues
Kent Knowles : Quahaug
The Depot Master : A Comedy of a Cape Cod Town
The Landloper : The Romance of a Man on Foot
When Egypt Went Broke : A Comedy of a Maine Mill Town
Kilo : Being the Love Story of Eliph' Hewlitt, Book Agent
The Professional Aunt : A Comedy of Family Duty
The Diary of a Nobody : Mr. Pooter of The Laurels, Holloway
The Enchanted Typewriter : A Comedy of the Afterworld
