How Amusing! And a Lot of Other Fables
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Mackail, Denis George
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1929
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This is a book of short stories very typical of life as literature depicts it in the 1920's. The two I read were the first and last: As You Dislike It and How Amusing! The stories are similar. They consist mostly of bright banter among the bored rich, often about the subject of getting married. The only positive quality in life is anything's amusingness. There is a good twist at the end of the final story. Bettine has spent a day full of short encounters with several different men, each of whom proposes marriage and each of whom loses something valuable in pursuit of her. Her mother checks on her as she has come to bed very late; the mother wonders why she has missed important appointments during the day. And you had an amusing time, I hope? she asks. Bettine sits up in bed with a jerk. Amusing! she snorts. It's been the most boring day I've ever had in my whole life! I am afraid that I would be tempted to say the same about the two stories that I read. I will not again confuse this with a fable book!
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William Heinemann Ltd
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5097 (Access ID)