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Iole

By Robert W. Chambers

2020-06-15 17:48:48

Does anybody remember the opera of The Inca, and that heart-breaking episode where the Court Undertaker, in a morbid desire to increase his professional skill, deliberately accomplishes the destruction of his middle-aged relatives in order to inter t ... Read more
Does anybody remember the opera of The Inca, and that heart-breaking episode where the Court Undertaker, in a morbid desire to increase his professional skill, deliberately accomplishes the destruction of his middle-aged relatives in order to inter them for the sake of practise? If I recollect, his dismal confession runs something like this: "It was in a bleak November When I slew them, I remember, As I caught them unawares Drinking tea in rocking-chairs." And so he talked them to death, the subject being "What Really is Art?" Less

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File size767.219 KB
Print pages180
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN979-0649486570
Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. He wa...

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