Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man
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"Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man" by Sir Henry Howarth Bashford is a comic novel published in 1924. This anonymous work presents the self-told story of Augustus Carp, a churchwarden and Sunday-school superintendent who considers himself morally superior to everyone around him. Glorious in his mediocrity and relentless in exposing others' faults, Carp pursues goodness and personal advancement with equal fervor. Critics have praised it
as one of the twentieth century's great comic novels—a masterpiece of booming humbug and lower-middle-class bigotry transformed into something resembling fairy-tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Bashford, H. H. (Henry Howarth), Sir, 1880-1961 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Blood, Marjorie (Artist) |
| LoC No. | 24026745 |
| Title | Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Carp,_Esq. |
| Credits | MWS, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 71.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Satire |
| Subject | Humorous stories |
| Subject | English fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 64587 |
| Release Date | Feb 18, 2021 |
| Last Update | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 407 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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