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.
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Three Men in a Boat : To Say Nothing of the Dog
The Wrong Box : An Inheritance and an Unclaimed Body
The Cruise of the Kawa : Wanderings in the South Seas
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen : The Baron's Own Account of His Travels
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court : An American Engineer in the Court of Camelot
The Comic History of the United States : A Burlesque of the Republic's Story
Comic History of the United States : American History Told for Laughs
The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green : An Oxford Freshman
Tea-Table Talk, and Other Stories : Wit and Nonsense Over the Teacups
The King of Schnorrers : Grotesques and Fantasies
A Tangled Tale : Ten Puzzles Wrapped in a Story
Three Comedies, and Other Writings : Sherlock Holmes Among the Shades
