Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot

Charles Heber Clark

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Project Gutenberg's Elbow-Room, by Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Elbow-Room A Novel Without a PlotAuthor: Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)Release Date: June 11, 2004 [EBook #12581]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ELBOW-ROOM ***Produced by Curtis Weyant, Tim Koeller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.ELBOW-ROOMA NOVEL WITHOUT A PLOTBYMAX ADELER1870AUTHOR OF "OUT OF THE HURLY-BURLY," ETC., ETC.ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR B. FROST[Illustration: Frontispiece]PREFACEIf every book that contains nothing but nonsense confessed that fact in its preface, the world would have been saved avast amount of dreary reading. Most of such volumes, however, are believed by their authors to be full of wisdom of thesolidest kind; and confession, therefore, being impossible, the reader may learn the truth only through much tribulation.The writer of this book freely admits, at the outset, that it contains only the lightest humor, and that its single purpose is toafford amusement. At the same time, he claims for it that it is wiser and far more useful than many more solemn booksthat have been published, with the intent to regenerate mankind, by authors who would regard such a volume ...

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• Publié par: sarej
• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 70
• Langue: English

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