Download or read book The Glorious Pool written by Thorne Smith and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another magical, mischievous Thorne Smith classic. Rex Pebble, a man in his sixties, is still caught in limbo between his wife and his mistress of twenty years, Spray Summers. One evening while relaxing beside the 'glorious pool' in Spray's back yard, Rex's life is transformed.
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Download or read book Glorious Pool The Annotated written by Thorne Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glorious Pool, published in 1934, is a humorous novel set in the time of Prohibition. Rex Pepple is an adulterous old man with a mistress and a Japanese houseboy who discover a swimming pool that contains water from a fountain of youth. Hijinks are bound to ensue.Thorne Smith was a fantastic fantasy fiction writer who sold millions of paperbacks in the early twentieth century. He was famous for his Topper novels as well as the novel that was later adapted to create Bewitched. His witty takes on modern life, sex, and the supernatural makes his unique style.
Download or read book The Glorious Pool written by Thorne Smith and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a pair of aging adulterers are magically transported back to the bloom of their youth? That's the question at the heart of Thorne Smith's wickedly clever tale, The Glorious Pool. Long-time lovers Rex Pebble and Spray Summers take a dip in a swimming pool and find themselves swimming backwards in time. Being inveterate hedonists, the two take full advantage of their restored nubility.
Download or read book The Glorious Pool Illustrated written by Thorne Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 60 year old Rex Pebble inadvertently discovers that the fountain of youth happens to be in his back yard swimming pool. A magical statue of a nymph by the name of Baggage, an ornamental pool decoration, has playfully endowed the Pebble swimming pool with the power to reverse the aging process. Typical Thorne Smith fun ensues when Pebble, his wife, and his mistress take a dip and take 20 years off their lives. One of the funniest scenes concerns a book dealer wanting to display his old and rare to Pebble's unresponsive mistress. The Ron Howard movie Cocoon borrowed the theme from the Glorious Pool with many of the same humourous results
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