The triumph of the nut and other parodies

Author: Christopher Ward

Pages: 198,992 Pages

Audio Length: 2 hr 45 min

Languages: en

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CHAPTER		PAGE
1.	THE TRIUMPH OF THE NUT	1
	or Too Many Marriages.
2.	THE FLAME THAT FAILED	10
	Réchaufféd from “The Vehement Flame.”
3.	BLACKER OXEN	20
	by Gertrude Otherton.
4.	GLIMPSING THE MOON	35
	With an obeisance to Edith Wharton.
5.	THE VANISHING POINT	47
	With apologies to “The Breaking Point.”
6.	BABBITT	59
	On Sinclair Lewis.
7.	JOSEPH AND THE BRIGHT SHAWL	70
8.	THE JUDGE	79
	or Turning the Tea Tables.
	Illustrating the influence of Henry James upon an otherwise perfectly good novelist, Rebecca West.
9.	THE PERILS OF PEREGRINE	84
	à la Jeffrey Farnol.
10.	ONE OF HERS	94
	Long after Willa Cather.
11.	PARADISE BE DAMNED!	105
	by F.Scott Fitzjazzer.
12.	THE TRIALS OF TRIONA	119
	In Locke Step.
13.	CAPTAIN BLOODLESS	128
	an Episode—
	Far from Sabatini.
14.	SOME FREEDOM!	135
	“With a great price ($2.00) obtained I This Freedom!”
15.	CERTAIN PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE	147
	Not by Kathleen Norris.
16.	THE BLUNDERER OF THE WASTELAND	157
	by Jane Grey.
17.	THE DRY LAND	170
	Another kind of “Waste Land” inspired by T.S.Eliot.