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Augustus Carp Esq. By Himself (Prion Humour Classics)
Current price:
$20.00
Publication Date: October 1st, 2000
Publisher:
Carlton Publishing Group
ISBN:
9781853754111
Pages:
231
Description
A Churchwarden, Sunday school superintendent, and President of the St Potamus Purity League, Augustus Carp is assiduous in exposing the sins and foibles of others while studiously ignoring his own. Although he campaigns against lechery, drinking, and smoking, he manages to indulge himself in plenty of other vices in the name of piety. The more seriously Carp takes himself, the more ridiculous he becomes. His frequent falls from dignity are uproarious—from his inability to climb off buses without falling over to his lifelong problems with flatulence. As a satire on hypocrisy, there is nothing quite like it in English prose.
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