Guy Wetmore Carryl: 12 books

4 works of Guy Wetmore Carryl American humorist and poet (1873-1904) This ebook presents a collection of  4 works of Guy Wetmore Carryl. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Fables for the Frivolous Grimm Tales Made Gay The Lieutenant-Governor The Transgression of Andrew Vane

The Transgression of Andrew Vane Guy Wetmore Carryl, american humorist and poet (1873-1904) This ebook presents «The Transgression of Andrew Vane», from Guy Wetmore Carryl. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01-...

Fables for the Frivolous Guy Wetmore Carryl, american humorist and poet (1873-1904) This ebook presents «Fables for the Frivolous», from Guy Wetmore Carryl. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book...

Grimm Tales Made Gay Guy Wetmore Carryl, american humorist and poet (1873-1904) This ebook presents «Grimm Tales Made Gay», from Guy Wetmore Carryl. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02-...

The Lieutenant Governor Guy Wetmore Carryl, american humorist and poet (1873-1904) This ebook presents «The Lieutenant Governor», from Guy Wetmore Carryl. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book...

Mother Goose for Grownups is an anthology of Carryl's humorous light verse published in 1900. These poems are parodies of the old traditional Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

I was on the threshold, so to speak, of thirty when my Uncle Ezra gave his first evidence of being aware of my existence by leaving me a competency. He had never seen me, nor I him, and he mis-spelled my very name several times in the course of his will; but, nevertheless, he contrived, in this manner,...

A number of humorous parodies of Grimm's Fairy Tales, such as “How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten” and “How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe.”

The offices of the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor adjoined. Each had its ante-room, in which a private secretary wrote eternally at a roll-top desk, an excessively plain-featured stenographer rattled the keys of his typewriter, and a smug-faced page yawned over a newspaper, or scanned the cards...

For months past, she had felt that she was weakening, that the crescent wretchedness of five long years--an uninterrupted descent from level to level, on each of which the thorns of disillusion caught at, and tore from her, some shred of hope or self-respect--had done its work at last. Her courage and...

This edition of Grimm Tales Made Gay, contains parodies of many of the Brothers Grimm’s narratives – as never seen before. It includes the fantastic children’s stories of ‘How Little Red Riding Hood Came to be Eaten’, ‘How the Babes in the Wood showed they Couldn’t be Beaten’, ‘How...

In the essay and especially in poetry the cat has become a favourite subject, but in fiction it must be admitted that he lags considerably behind the dog. The reasons for this apparently arbitrary preference on the part of authors are perfectly easy to explain. The instinctive acts of the dog, who is...