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Cobb, Irvin S.: The Life of the Party (novella). v1. 14 Aug 2018
We find, in the wee hours of the morning, thirty-seven-year-old lawyer Algernon Leary making his way homeward after attending a costume party. Observe now, as he braves the mean streets of New York City, clad in an infant’s watermelon-pink romper suit. Good times will be had by many. But not by Algy....
* * * Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor, and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York in 1904 for the remainder of his life, writing for the New York World, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and other newspapers and magazines. Cobb wrote more than 300 short stories and 60 books (most of these being collections of his stories and articles). Some of his works were adapted for film. He was one of America’s most popular humorists during the first third of the twentieth century. =================================== The contents of this book first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post Jan 1919; The Life of the Party was published in book form later in 1919. Illustrations by James M. Preston (1873–1962) have been omitted from this ebook due to copyright restrictions. Text is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is “Life + 70” or less, and in the USA. Text was obtained from Project Gutenberg; cover image from the Internet Archive. Transcription errors were corrected; punctuation, diacritics, and italics formatted; spelling Americanized. Embedded font used for titling. . This work is assumed to be in the Life+70 public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. Copyright laws differ throughout the world, and it may still be under copyright in some countries. Before downloading, please check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work.
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