Augustus Carp Esquire, by Himself by Henry Howarth Bashford

Augustus Carp Esquire, by Himself by Henry Howarth Bashford

It is customary, I have noticed, in publishing an autobiography to preface it with some sort of apology. But there are times, and surely the present is one of them, when to do so is manifestly unnecessary. In an age when every standard of decent conduct has either been torn down or is threatened with destruction; when every newspaper is daily reporting scenes of violence, divorce, and arson; when quite young girls smoke cigarettes and even, I am assured, sometimes cigars; when mature women, the mothers of unhappy children, enter the sea in one-piece bathing-costumes; and when married men, the heads of households, prefer the flicker of the cinematograph to the Athanasian Creed -- then it is obviously a task, not to be justifiably avoided, to place some higher example before the world. For some time -- I am now forty-seven -- I had been feeling this with increasing urgency. And when not only my wife and her four sisters, but the vicar of my parish, the Reverend Simeon Whey, approached me with the same suggestion, I felt that delay would amount to sin. That sin, by many persons, is now lightly regarded, I am, of course, only too well aware. That its very existence is denied by others is a fact equally familiar to me. But I am not one of them. On every ground I am an unflinching opponent of sin. I have continually rebuked it in others. I have strictly refrained from it in myself. And for that reason alone I have deemed it incumbent upon me to issue this volume. A satire, originally anonymous, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1924 and, later that year in the United States. The author was an English physician, Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880 1961), and the illustrations were by Robin (Marjorie Blood).

Bashford, Henry: - Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880 - 1961) was a distinguished English physician, becoming Honorary Physician to King George VI. He was also an author, most notably of satirical novels. Bashford was Chief Medical Officer to the Post Office (1933-43) and subsequently Treasury Medical Adviser (1943-45). He was Honorary Physician to King George VI (1941-44) and was the late Honorary President of the Post Office Ambulance Centre, St. John Ambulance Association. He was honored by a knighthood of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Bashford is now remembered as a satirical writer and also wrote some popular poetry.

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ISBN 13	9781853754111
ISBN 10	1853754110
Title	Augustus Carp Esquire, by Himself
Author	Henry Howarth Bashford
Series	Prion Humour Classics S
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Welbeck Publishing Group
Year published	2000-10-10
Number of pages	224
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