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The Idiot at Home

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A collection of comic domestic sketches voiced by a genial, scatterbrained narrator who recounts household misadventures with his wife, two children, servants, and neighbors. Episodes range from bungled dinners, library and attic troubles, and gardening to concerns about hired help, holiday rituals, and minor burglaries, each told with dry irony and farcical detail. The pieces gently satirize middle-class routines and parental confusion, tracking how good intentions collide with practical absurdities and revealing humor in ordinary domestic incompetence.

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