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The Asbestos Society of Sinners / detailing the diversions of Dives and others on the playground of Pluto, with some broken threads of drop-stitch history, picked up by a newspaper man in Hades and woven into a Stygian nights' entertainment

Chapter 1: Transcriber’s Notes
By Lawrence Daniel Fogg
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A newspaper reporter takes an imaginative tour of the underworld and recounts a string of episodic, humorous encounters with mythic and historical personages. Each chapter stages satirical sketches that poke fun at politics, finance, religion, scientific theories, and social fashions, often recasting origin stories and public figures in absurd or anachronistic roles. The tone mixes tabloid briskness with fanciful fantasy, alternating parody, gossip, and whimsical re‑interpretation to expose human vanity and hypocrisy while keeping the material light and comic.

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Title: The Asbestos Society of Sinners

Author: Lawrence Daniel Fogg

Release date: January 17, 2022 [eBook #67190]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Mayhew Publishing Company, 1906

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Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. In particular the spelling of proper names viz. Catharine of Arragon remain.

In chapter XI, page 146:
“By the bye,” I put in, “it seems to me the
Morman has the biggest kick coming against
his wives’ mothers, yet I've never heard a word....

Morman is almost certainly Mormon or Mormon man.

THE ASBESTOS SOCIETY OF SINNERS

The Asbestos
Society
of Sinners

Detailing the Diversions of Dives and others on the Playground
of Pluto, with some broken threads of Drop-stitch
History, picked up by a Newspaper man
in Hades and woven into a Stygian Nights’
Entertainment.

BY

LAWRENCE DANIEL FOGG

MAYHEW PUBLISHING COMPANY
92-100 Ruggles Street
Boston, Mass.

Copyright, 1906
by
Lawrence Daniel Fogg

All Rights Reserved.

Dedicated to
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Who first made Hades a pleasant place of abode and aroused
in his reader a desire to go cruising on the Styx