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Clarence Day
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This Simian World |
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No copies available |
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Hardcover |
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98 |
| Date: |
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1936 |
| ISBN: |
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B000M1FMQO |
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Alfred A. Knoph |
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11th Printing |
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2 Donna (USA: MD), Donna (USA: MD) |
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2 Peaceopi (USA: MS), Ultra Gnome (USA: TX) |
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This is a book that looks at man as an ape in mufti. The author has noted our simian characteristics and he also speculates on the ways in which we might have been better or worse had we evolved from Ants, Bees, Cats, Dogs or Elephants. Satire of the purest Swiftian style, but gentler. Whereas Gulliver traveled far and met many sizes, shapes, and manner of men to throw light on the human comedy, Clarence Day travels back in time to examine the species existing 'after the great saurians had been swept from the scene' and pick a winner in the evolutionary sweepstakes. Day's first literary work, preceded by Decennial Record of the Class, 1896, and The Half-Way Book, 1915. |
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