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Coffee and Repartee and The Idiot

Coffee and Repartee and The Idiot

Coffee and Repartee; And the Idiot

John Kendrick Bangs

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Wildside Press
Año de edición:
2025
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ISBN:
9781434431400
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Coffee and Repartee and The Idiot are companion pieces of sparkling comic fiction, centered on a series of breakfast-table debates led by an eccentric lodger known only as 'The Idiot.' Through rapid-fire exchanges, he disarms and delights his more serious-minded companions with a blend of absurd reasoning and earnest charm. What begins as nonsense gradually reveals sly insights into society, intellect, and human behavior. Set in a New York boardinghouse and composed largely of dialogue, these works showcase Bangs’s flair for humor and parody in the Gilded Age. The result is a light but layered satire that still entertains with its clever repartee and gentle critique of conventional wisdom.John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, satirist, and editor of Puck Magazine. Coffee and Repartee and The Idiot are linked novellas.

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