FEATURED AUTHOR - After graduating from Duke University, Glen Dawson owned and operated a flexible packaging manufacturing plant for 23 years. Then, he sold the factory and went back to school to get his Master's degree in biostatistics from Boston University. When he moved to North Carolina, he opened an after-school learning academy for advanced math students in grades 2 through 12. After growing the academy from 30 to 430 students, he sold it to Art of Problem Solving. Since retiring from Art of Problem…
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This book is also in Google books with the illustrations, in black and white, starting on page 175 and running through the end of the book (suggest using the grid view to see them all and scroll down; click on one to see it.)
Kind of like reading the story inside a video game, once you really get into the story.
Skip the librivox audiobook; at least one of the narrators, along about the 16th and some of the following chapters, is very hard to follow. Her first language does not uses articles as English does; for example, she says, "Chapter Sixteen, Circular Staircase," and otherwise leaves out all the "the's." Her words are audible, her tone agreeable, but many many words are just not intelligible--including part of her name.
On or about page 55, there is a short "Wessex novel" which is a satire on Thomas Hardy's work. If you recall any of them from school, you will enjoy this more. When you find out the main character's name--very funny. And it spoofs Hardy's LONG descriptions as in a scene where the young heroine looks out over the land and sees "a procession making their way over the parched fields (two pages of field description omitted--Editor).'
Ah. Welcome to the writing of Henry James. They call his style "figure in the carpet" writing because he would describe EVERYTHING in the setting all the way down to the figure woven into the carpet on the floor.
"It is extremely funny; the story of a self-respecting clerk who manages to constantly humiliate himself at home and at work. His son is hilarious."
I ran across it in a college library and wondered why it was there; the explanation about the author might explain it. I started to read it and got halfway through, just standing by the shelf chuckling, before I reluctantly gave it up to get back to my textbooks. Glad to know it's here.