Happy Thoughts [7/39]
[Francis C Burnand]
Genre: | Diary, Spoof, Serial |
Subjects: | Societies, Reading, Evolution |
Describes the narrator's faltering attempt to read to his friends a manuscript for a 'grand work entitled Typical Developments', which begins with a sentence describing the 'very earliest and darkest ages of our ancient earth, before even the grand primæval forests' (96). | |
Reprinted: | Burnand 1868 |
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