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Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (Hesperus Classics)

Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (Hesperus Classics)

Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (Hesperus Classics)
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Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (Hesperus Classics)

by Cooper, James Fenimore

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Set in Paris and New York in the 1830s, this fable is narrated by a pocket handkerchief, an article which at that time was used more for show than for blow. It is, thus, distinguished for its beauty rather than for the function of ordinary handkerchiefs. It begins its autobiography by establishing its ancestry back through several generations of flax plants, starting in America and then moving to France when a large shipment of flaxseed was captured by a French privateer. Every flax plant and its linen offspring enjoy a special kind of clairvoyance which unites their perceptions with those of both their vegetable ancestors and their human associates. For this reason all pieces of linen are wiser and better informed than is generally supposed, and the observations of a sophisticated pocket handkerchief provide a most fitting vehicle for the broad social satire of the story.

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Title
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief (Hesperus Classics)
Author
Cooper, James Fenimore
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Paperback
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Used - Good
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ISBN 10
1843911396
ISBN 13
9781843911395
Publisher
Hesperus Press
This edition first published
March 1, 2007

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