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St. Twel'mo; or, The Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga

Charles Henry Webb

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Description:This is the first published book of this celebrated and rising humorist. Abounding with the quaintest and rarest wit, which never degenerates into coarseness, it can not fail to have an extensive sale.In 1867, Webb wrote St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga, a parody of the novel St. Elmo by Augusta Evans Wilson which had sold over a million copies within four months of its publication the year before." "Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) wrote nine novels about southern women that were among the most popular fiction in nineteenth-century America. Her most successful novel, St. Elmo (1866), sold a million copies within four months of its appearance and remained in print well into the twentieth century. The sexual tensions between the book's cynical Byronic hero, St. Elmo, and its beautiful Christian heroine, self-made writer Edna Earl, inspired the christening of villages, plantations, steamboats, railway carriages, male infants, a punch, a cigar, and one infamous parody, St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with St. Twel'mo; or, The Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga. To get started finding St. Twel'mo; or, The Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 59

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Publisher: New York: C.H. Webb

Release: 1867

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Description: This is the first published book of this celebrated and rising humorist. Abounding with the quaintest and rarest wit, which never degenerates into coarseness, it can not fail to have an extensive sale.In 1867, Webb wrote St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga, a parody of the novel St. Elmo by Augusta Evans Wilson which had sold over a million copies within four months of its publication the year before." "Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) wrote nine novels about southern women that were among the most popular fiction in nineteenth-century America. Her most successful novel, St. Elmo (1866), sold a million copies within four months of its appearance and remained in print well into the twentieth century. The sexual tensions between the book's cynical Byronic hero, St. Elmo, and its beautiful Christian heroine, self-made writer Edna Earl, inspired the christening of villages, plantations, steamboats, railway carriages, male infants, a punch, a cigar, and one infamous parody, St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with St. Twel'mo; or, The Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga. To get started finding St. Twel'mo; or, The Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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