The Idiot at Home
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Chapters (44)
- The Idiot at Home
- John Kendrick Bangs
- Illustrated by
- F. T. Richards
- NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS Publishers 1900
- NEW YORK AND LONDON: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
- TO "MISS BANGS OF LONDON" FROM "MR. BARNES OF NEW YORK"
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- I
- II
- A LITTLE DINNER TO SOME OLD FRIENDS
- III
- IN THE LIBRARY
- IV
- AS TO A SMALL DINNER
- V
- ON THE MAINTENANCE OF AN ATTIC
- VI
- THE IDIOT'S GARDEN
- VII
- HOUSEHOLD POETRY
- "FIDELITY
- VIII
- SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE HIRED MAN
- IX
- ON SOCIAL ACCOUNTS
- X
- AS TO SANTA CLAUS
- XI
- AS TO NEW-YEAR'S DAY
- XII
- SOME DOMESTIC INVENTIONS
- XIII
- A SUBURBAN COMPLICATION
- XIV
- SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE MOTH
- XV
- SOME CONSIDERATION OF THE BURGLAR
- XVI
- CONCLUSION
- Mr. and Mrs. Idiot Request the Pleasure of Your Company at Dinner On Thursday Evening, May 31, 1900 At Half-after Seven O'Clock R.S.V.P. Last Call
- THE END
- HARPER & BROTHERS, Publishers NEW YORK AND LONDON
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