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.
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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."
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Download or read book Augustus Carp Esq written by Henry Bashford and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Carp, Esq. By Henry Howarth Bashford Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man is a satire, originally anonymous, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1924 and, later that year, by Houghton Mifflin in the United States. The author was an English physician, Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880-1961). 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.
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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.
Download or read book Augustus Carp Esq By Himself Being the autobiography of a really good man With illustrations by Robin written by Augustus CARP (pseud. [i.e. Sir Henry Howarth Bashford.]) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Augustus Carp Esq written by Henry Howarth Bashford and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustus Carp, Esq. The Autobiography of a Really Good Man By Henry Howarth Bashford The Classic Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man is a satire, originally anonymous, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1924 and, later that year, by Houghton Mifflin in the United States. The author was an English physician, Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880-1961), and the illustrations were by "Robin" (Marjorie Blood). 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.
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Download or read book Augustus Carp written by Henry Howarth Bashford and published by Ático de los Libros. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una sátira contra la hipocresía. Administrador de una parroquia, superintendente de la catequesis y presidente de la Liga por la Pureza de San Potamus, Augustus Carp tiene por costumbre exponer los pecados y defectos de los demás mientras, al mismo tiempo, es perfectamente capaz de ignorar los propios. Desde su más tierna infancia, Augustus emprende continuas campañas contra la lascivia, la bebida y el tabaco, mientras a su vez cae en muchos otros vicios en nombre de la piedad. Cuanto más en serio se toma Carp a sí mismo y más enardecidamente lucha contra los pecadores, más hace reír al lector, que verá fácilmente a través de la supuesta caridad cristiana del protagonista. La vida de Carp recorre un abanico de situaciones vergonzosas que van desde su incapacidad de bajar de los autobuses sin caerse, pasando por sus problemas crónicos con las flatulencias o su cruzada para salvar a una linda actriz de teatro de los pecados de su profesión, hasta una borrachera de proporciones épicas producida por el consumo desmesurado de un misterioso "zumo de frutas". Escrito en 1924, Augustus Carp es un gran clásico de la literatura de humor inglesa moderna. "Una farsa sublime y feroz." The New Yorker "Incomparable, una sátira desternillante contra la hipocresía." New Statesman "Una de las grandes novelas cómicas del siglo XX." Anthony Burgess "La voz narrativa de Augustus es una obra maestra de ironía controlada, que se revela en cada palabra y cada giro de su elegante sintaxis." The Washington Post "Carp es piadoso, hipócrita, glotón, no demasiado brillante y, sí, residente criticón de Camberwell, y el narrador de lo que Anthony Burgess llamó una de las fantásticas novelas cómicas del siglo XX." London Review of Books "Una de esa pequeñas obras maestras que parecen salir de la nada." Frank Muir "Esta apócrifa autobiografía de un triste terrateniente inglés piadoso y satisfecho de sí mismo es quizá menos accesible que otros clásicos del humor, pero la curiosa estupidez de su protagonista logra fácilmente pasar el listón." Publishers Weekly "La obra cómica de Bashford ofrece la autobiografía burlesca de Augustus Carp, un egocéntrico, estirado y puritano zoquete, que se perdona a sí mismo sus numerosos vicios en nombre del cristianismo, razonando sus propias debilidades mientras condena a los demás por los mismos actos. Muy divertida." Library Journal "El libro desconocido mas divertido del mundo." Robert Robinson
Download or read book Augustus Carp Esq written by Sir Henry Howarth Bashford and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Augustus Carp Esq written by Henry Howarth Bashford and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Excerpt: ...But for the fact, indeed, that two of my mother's sisters had not, at that time, had their tonsils removed, the whole house would have been wrapped in the profoundest stillness.My mother's mother was the first to see Mrs Smith, though she only saw her, as it were, through a mist. Mrs Smith was the first to speak, in a voice tremulous with emotion.`Where's Augustus?' she said. Augustus was my father's name.`He's just gone outside, ' said my mother's mother.Something splashed heavily on the hall linoleum. It was a drop of moisture from Mrs Smith's forehead.`Tell him, ' she said, `that he's the father of a son.'.
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.
