Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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A pompous, self-justifying narrator presents a mock-autobiography recounting his upbringing, family life, schooling, early ambitions, career choices, and social encounters, all delivered with earnest moralizing that highlights petty hypocrisy. Episodes touch on infancy ailments, school bullying and legal disputes, eccentric local notables, visionary notions of a Christian commercial vocation, and domestic details. Through comic detail and exaggerated self-congratulation he unwittingly exposes the gap between his proclaimed goodness and a narrow, judgmental outlook, producing sustained satire of middle-class respectability.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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MYSELF AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE	Frontispiece
(From a photograph now in the possession of the Reverend Simeon Whey.)

MY DEAR FATHER IN HIS PRIME	28
(Taken from a group of sidesmen of St. James-the-Less.)

FROM A PORTRAIT OF THE AUNT WHO STOOD WITH MY MOTHER’S MOTHER AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS	40

MR. CHRYSOSTOM LORTON	108

ALEXANDER CARKEEK AND HIS TWO SONS	130

EZEKIEL STOOL	168
(Drawn from a portrait once in the possession of the A.D.S.U.)

THE REV. SIMEON WHEY	192
(From a photograph in my possession.)

THE TWIN SISTERS OF EZEKIEL STOOL	256
(The right-hand one became my wife.)