The Duke in the Suburbs: Original Text

By: Wallace, Edgar

The local directory is a useful institution to the stranger, but the intimate directory ofsuburbia, the libellous "Who's Who," has never and will never be printed. Set in parallelcolumns, it must be clear to the meanest intelligence that, given a free hand, the directoryeditor could produce a volume which for sparkle and interest, would surpass the finestwork that author has produced, or free library put into circulation. Thus: -AUTHORIZED STATEMENT. PRIVATE AMENDMENT.KYMOTT CRESCENT.And so on ad infinitum, or rather until the portentous and grave pronouncement "Here isKymott Terrace" shuts off the Crescent, its constitution and history. There are hundreds ofKymott Crescents in London Suburbia, populated by immaculate youths of a certain set andrigid pattern, of girls who affect open-worked blouses and short sleeves, of deliberate oldgentlemen who water their gardens and set crude traps for the devastating caterpillar. Andthe young men play cricket in snowy flannels, and the girls get hot and messy at tennis, andthe old gentlemen foregather in the evening at the nearest open space to play bowls withsome labour and no little dignity. So it was with the Crescent

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08B325JJ4
• ISBN13: 9798653936661
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"