Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams. J. B. Priestley

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       J. B. Priestley

      Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664591029

      Table of Contents

       TALES

       THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF KNOWING EVERYONE

       A MOVING STORY OF REAL LIFE

       THE TRUE ACCOUNT OF A QUARREL BETWEEN A MAN WE ALL KNOW AND A VERY OLD FAMILY

       AT THE ‘RED LION,’ RAMPLE STREET

       THE DANGER OF ACCEPTING GIFTS WHILE HOLDING MUNICIPAL OFFICE

       THE HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE OF A FORGOTTEN GOD

       HOW THE RATIONAL AMUSEMENTS OF THE GREAT ARE LIMITED

       THE IMPRUDENCE OF A POLITICIAN IN TRAVELLING FURTHER THAN THE NEWSPAPERS

       THE WRONG WORLD

       THE VALUE OF A NEW POINT OF VIEW

       THE UNINVITED GUEST

       HOW I MET WITH A FAMOUS CHARACTER IN A CAFÉ

       THE MUTINY

       DEATH AND THE FIDDLER

       THE COLLEGE OF IMMORTAL FAME

       THE LONELY SOUL

       THE LOST PATH

       THE LAST GLIMPSE OF A WELL-KNOWN FIGURE IN SOCIETY

       ADVANCED THOUGHT AND THE FOOLISH IDLER

       THE WONDERFUL VIEW

       THE ROOM OF LOST SOULS

       THE CYNICISM OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES

       THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD GOVERNMENT

       THE MORAL

       TRAVESTIES

       A SONG IN THE MANNER OF MR WALTER DE LA MARE

       ‘Æ’: THE INEFFABLE SPLENDOUR OF THINGUMBOB

       SIR WM WATSON: ON RECEIVING AN ÉDITION-DE-LUXE OF ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

       PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE THREE BLIND MICE (PERIODS OF EUROPEAN NONSENSE)

       MR JAMES STEPHENS: ‘SEUMAS BEG AGAIN’

       A LECTURE NOT YET WRITTEN OR DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR SIR A. T. QUILLER-COUCH: ON THE DIRECT METHOD

       LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI: NEW STYLE. AS IT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE WRITTEN BY MR LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE

       THE LATER MANNER OF MR W. B. YEATS

       A SONG: NOT IN THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MR ALFRED NOYES

       FROM A GREAT POLITICAL-BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA, ‘BUBB BODINGTON’ NOT YET WRITTEN BY MR JOHN DRINKWATER

       AN EPILOGUE TO ‘TRIVIA’ (With apologies to Mr Logan Pearsall Smith)

       EPIGRAMS