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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... Read Full Overview

"A sublime ferocious farce." -- The New Yorker.
"Incomparable ... a wonderful slapstick satire on hypocrisy." -- New Statesman.
"One of the great comic novels of the twentieth century." -- Anthony Burgess.
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Augustus Carp, Esq.

The Autobiography of a Really Good Man

By Henry Howarth Bashford

The Classic

Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man is a satire, originally anonymous, first published in... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

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