Augustus Carp Esq By Himself

Download or read book Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man written by H. H. Sir Bashford and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Carp, Esq. is the impressive and comprehensive autobiography of Sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1st Baronet, PC. Cartier was a Canadian statesman and Father of Confederation. In the years leading up to Confederation, he was a dominant figure in the politics of Canada East as leader of the Parti bleu.

Download or read book Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself written by Henry Howarth Bashford and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-satisfied fool recounts his mundane achievements in this cult classic and comic gem. Published anonymously in 1924, this spoof memoir was hailed by The New Yorker as "a sublime, ferocious farce."

Download or read book Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself written by Sir Henry Howarth Bashford and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet our memoirist, Augustus Carp, a self-proclaimed "good man" who relishes every opportunity to condemn the weaknesses of others while excusing his own failings. In this spoof autobiography, the pompous narrator enthusiastically recounts his mundane achievements with unwitting hilarity, making frequent asides to bemoan the sins of lesser mortals. Much of the story's ironic humor derives from his delivery; the more seriously Carp takes himself, the more ridiculous he appears. This riotous fable is supported by a cast of delightfully eccentric and grotesque characters: Abraham Stool, manufacturer of the famous Adult Gripe Water; schoolteacher Mr. Beerthorpe, inevitably known to his charges as "Beery"; the Rev. Eugene Cake, author of such improving fiction as Gnashers of Teeth; and other memorable personalities. A cult classic and comic gem, the book was originally published anonymously in 1924 and rediscovered decades later, when its author was revealed as a genteel (and discreet) London physician. This edition features the splendidly droll illustrations by Punch artist Marjorie Blood from the original publication.

Download or read book Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man written by Henry Howarth Bashford (Sir) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself written by Augustus Carp and published by Academy Chicago Pub. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Augustus Carp, Esq. written by Sir Henry Bashford and published by Alan Rodgers Books. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent conduct has either been torn down or is threatened with destruction; when every newspaper is daily reporting scenes of violence, divorce, and arson; when quite young girls smoke cigarettes and even, I am assured, sometimes cigars; when mature women, the mothers of unhappy children, enter the sea in one-piece bathing-costumes; and when married men, the heads of households, prefer the flicker of the cinematograph to the Athanasian Creed -- then it is obviously a task, not to be justifiably avoided, to place some higher example before the world. For some time -- I am now forty-seven -- I had been feeling this with increasing urgency. And when not only my wife and her four sisters, but the vicar of my parish, the Reverend Simeon Whey, approached me with the same suggestion, I felt that delay would amount to sin. That sin, by many persons, is now lightly regarded, I am, of course, only too well aware. That its very existence is denied by others is a fact equally familiar to me. But I am not one of them. On every ground I am an unflinching opponent of sin. I have continually rebuked it in others. I have strictly refrained from it in myself. And for that reason alone I have deemed it incumbent upon me to issue this volume.