The Adventures Of A Suburbanite by Butler, Ellis Parker

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MP3 Audio CD. First published in 1911, The Adventures of a Suburbanite is one of the entertaining satirical books that made Ellis Parker Butler so popular in his time and it accounts for his popularity today, too.The world of city suburbs is a really special one. It is full of characters that are superficial, but deep at the same time, vain, but self-sacrificing when need be. Ellis Parker Butler uses his own special type of insight and his sensitivity to the absurd to present this world and its inhabitants ? middle-class heroes, colorful and entertaining characters than can be deeply loved and fiercely criticized at the same time.The Adventures of a Suburbanite is a very typical story by Ellis Parker Butler, so if you like the style and the attitude, you will surely love the author?s other pieces as well. When it comes to the oeuvre of Ellis Parker Butler, there are a lot of writings to choose from ? he published over 30 books and over 2,000 short stories in his lifetime. During his four-decades long… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Adventures of a Suburbanite I. THE PRAWLEYS ISOBEL was born in a flat, and that was no fault of her own; but she was born in a flat, and reared in a flat, and married from a flat, and, for two years after we were married, we lived in a flat; but I am not a born flat-dweller myself, and as soon as possible I proposed that we move to the country. Isobel hesitated, but she hesitated so weakly that on the first of May we had bought the place at Westcote and moved into it. The very day I moved into my house Millington came over and said he was glad some one had moved in, because the last man that had lived in the house was afraid of automobiles, and would never take a spin with him. He said he hoped I was not afraid; and when I said I was not, he immediately proposed that we take a little spin out to Port Lafayette as soon as I had my furniture straightened around. I thought it was very nice and neighbourly and unusual for a man with an automobile to begin an acquaintance that way; but… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Adventures of a Suburbanite I. THE PRAWLEYS ISOBEL was born in a flat, and that was no fault of her own; but she was born in a flat, and reared in a flat, and married from a flat, and, for two years after we were married, we lived in a flat; but I am not a born flat-dweller myself, and as soon as possible I proposed that we move to the country. Isobel hesitated, but she hesitated so weakly that on the first of May we had bought the place at Westcote and moved into it. The very day I moved into my house Millington came over and said he was glad some one had moved in, because the last man that had lived in the house was afraid of automobiles, and would never take a spin with him. He said he hoped I was not afraid; and when I said I was not, he immediately proposed that we take a little spin out to Port Lafayette as soon as I had my furniture straightened around. I thought it was very nice and neighbourly and unusual for a man with an automobile to begin an acquaintance that way; but… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. First published in 1911, The Adventures of a Suburbanite is one of the entertaining satirical books that made Ellis Parker Butler so popular in his time and it accounts for his popularity today, too.The world of city suburbs is a really special one. It is full of characters that are superficial, but deep at the same time, vain, but self-sacrificing when need be. Ellis Parker Butler uses his own special type of insight and his sensitivity to the absurd to present this world and its inhabitants ? middle-class heroes, colorful and entertaining characters than can be deeply loved and fiercely criticized at the same time.The Adventures of a Suburbanite is a very typical story by Ellis Parker Butler, so if you like the style and the attitude, you will surely love the author?s other pieces as well. When it comes to the oeuvre of Ellis Parker Butler, there are a lot of writings to choose from ? he published over 30 books and over 2,000 short stories in his lifetime. During his four-decades long… Read More

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Doubleday, Page & Co, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ, gilt lettering and illustrations on green cloth bound boards, some wear at top and bottom of the spine

Paperback / softback. New.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page, 1911. hardcover. Book: Good. 16mo.. Phelan, A.B.. 224 pp. 4 1/2 x 6 7/8. Green cloth covered boards, stamped in red and green on front. No dj. Cloth slightly faded at spine. Minor edgewear. Gift notation (""Barbara from Grandma"") on ffep.

Paperback / softback. New.