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A series of short parodies that adopt and exaggerate the voices and mannerisms of various early twentieth-century writers, recasting familiar stylistic traits—sentimentalism, melodrama, formal mannerisms, modernist fragmentation—into comic sketches. Each chapter imitates a distinct authorial tone and narrative habit, turning characteristic phrasing, plot devices, and thematic preoccupations into absurd premises and ironic set pieces. The collection functions as satirical pastiche, using humor and hyperbole to reveal and play with contemporary literary conventions across fiction and poetry.

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Title: The triumph of the nut, and other parodies

Author: Christopher Ward

Release date: October 6, 2024 [eBook #74533]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923

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THE TRIUMPH OF THE NUT
AND OTHER PARODIES

BY
CHRISTOPHER WARD
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1923
Copyright, 1923,
By
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
First Printing, September, 1923
Second Printing, November, 1923
Printed in the United States of America
TO
Sherwood Anderson,
Margaret Deland,
Gertrude Atherton,
Edith Wharton,
Mary Roberts Rinehart,
Sinclair Lewis,
Joseph Hergesheimer,
Rebecca West,
Jeffrey Farnol,
Willa Cather,
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
William J. Locke,
Rafael Sabatini,
A. S. M. Hutchinson,
Kathleen Norris,
Zane Grey,
T. S. Eliot
Without whose assistance
it could never have been written,
This Book is
Timidly Dedicated.

Acknowledgment is gratefully made to The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post for permission to reprint several of these parodies, which appeared in its columns, often under different titles and sometimes in briefer versions.