Download or read book The Mutual Friend written by Carter Bays and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a rare thing: an original, intelligent novel that’s not just a perfect summer beach read, but one that deserves serious awards consideration as well. Put down your phone and pick it up. . . . A major accomplishment.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, a hilarious and thought-provoking debut novel set in New York City, following an unforgettable cast of characters as they navigate life, love, loss, ambition, and spirituality—without ever looking up from their phones It’s the summer of 2015, and Alice Quick needs to get to work. She’s twenty-eight years old, grieving her mother, barely scraping by as a nanny, and freshly kicked out of her apartment. If she can just get her act together and sign up for the MCAT, she can start chasing her dream of becoming a doctor . . . but in the Age of Distraction, the distractions are so distracting. There’s her tech millionaire brother’s religious awakening. His picture-perfect wife’s emotional breakdown. Her chaotic new roommate’s thirst for adventure. And, of course, there’s the biggest distraction of all: love. From within the story of one summer in one woman’s life, a tapestry of characters is unearthed, tied to one another by threads both seen and unseen. Filled with all the warmth, humor, and heart that gained How I Met Your Mother its cult following, The Mutual Friend captures in sparkling detail the chaos of contemporary life—a life lived simultaneously in two different worlds, the physical one and the one behind our screens—and reveals how connected we all truly are.

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Download or read book Charles Dickens s Our Mutual Friend written by Sean Grass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dickens's return to the monthly number format after nearly a decade of writing fiction designed for weekly publication in All the Year Round, Our Mutual Friend emerged against the backdrop of his failing health, troubled relationship with Ellen Ternan, and declining reputation among contemporary critics. In his subtly argued publishing history, Sean Grass shows how these difficulties combined to make Our Mutual Friend an extraordinarily odd novel, no less in its contents and unusually heavy revisions than in its marketing by Chapman and Hall, its transformation from a serial into British and U.S. book editions, its contemporary reception by readers and reviewers, and its delightfully uneven reputation among critics in the 150 years since Dickens’s death. Enhanced by four appendices that offer contemporary accounts of the Staplehurst railway accident, information on archival materials, transcripts of all of the contemporary reviews, and a select bibliography of editions, Grass’s book shows why this last of Dickens’s finished novels continues to intrigue its readers and critics.

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Download or read book Our Mutual Friend a Comedy in Four Acts written by Harriette Shattuck and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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Download or read book Our Mutual Friend a Comedy in Four Acts written by Harriette Shattuck and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Download or read book Our Mutual Friend written by Harriette R. Shattuck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Mutual Friend: A Comedy, in Four Acts John Rokesmith - ("A dark gentleman, thirty at the most.") Plain black suit. Act IV., Dark suit. Light overcoat and gloves. Silk hat. R. Wilfer - ("Rusty. Ruddy, Round.") Black suit and hat, worn and rusty. Act IV., Dressing-gown and slippers. Must be short, stout, and blonde. Mr. Boffin - ("A broad, round-shouldered old fellow.") Thick shoes. Thick leather gaiters. Pea overcoat over suit of mourning. Broad-brimmed felt hat. Acts II. and III., Checked or striped suit. High-colored vest. Flashy neck-cloth. Watch and seals. Act IV., Add overcoat and hat. George Sampson - ("A young gentleman of rising prospects.") Blonde hair, parted in the middle. White trousers and vest. Velvet coat. Yellow gloves. Bright neck-tie. Silk hat. Large cane, the round head of which he holds in his mouth all the time. Bella - ("So mercenary, so wilful, hut so pretty.") Act I., Plain black dress. Act II., Elegant riding habit. Act III., Rich house-dress, changed in Scene 2 to very plain dress, sacque, and hat. Act IV., Stylish walking costume, (not too rich.) Mrs. Wilfer - ("A tall woman, and an angular.") Severely plain brown or gray waist and skirt - short enough to show slippers and black stockings. Plain collar. Handkerchief tied over head and knotted under chin. Large-sized cotton gloves (worn all the time.) Lavvy - ("Old enough to be engaged.") Short costumes of girl of sixteen. Act IV., Long trailing house-dress, of bright color and over-trimmed. Mrs. Boffin - ("A smiling creature, broad of figure and simple of nature.") Elegant velvet or silk costumes. A profusion of jewelry. Broad velvet hat with long plumes. Acts I. and IV., Long velvet mantle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Comedy and Culture written by Roger B. Henkle and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it 'must be studied in specific cultural and historical contexts. From this point of view he examines the development of literary comedy in nineteenth-century England, and shows how comic modes and techniques were used to express and release the tensions of the middle class during periods of both rapid cultural change and relative stability. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.