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Life with Father
Clarence Day
其他書名
Short Stories
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016-10-15
主題Fiction / Humorous / General
ISBN15395549029781539554905
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DGmDvgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Clarence Day's comic stories of his father, Clarence "Clare" Day Senior are taken from the "New Yorker" magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. The more he rails against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, holidays, his children and the inability of the world to live up to his impossible standards, the more comical and lovable he becomes to his own family who love him despite it all. First published in 1936, shortly after his death, Day's book is a picture of New York upper-middle-class family life in the 1890s. The stories are filled with affectionate irony. Day's understated, matter-of-fact style underlines the comedy in everyday situations.