The Lunatic at Large (Collins Library)

Clouston, J. Storer

ISBN 10: 1932416706 / ISBN 13: 9781932416701

Published by McSweeney's Publishing, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lunatic at Large (Collins Library)
• Publisher: McSweeney's Publishing
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932416706
• ISBN 13: 9781932416701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used: Like New

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Synopsis

The best-bred lunatics in England live in Clankwood, and Francis Beveridge is that community's newest resident. Rather than attending the asylum's Saturday dances, though, Beveridge goes on the lam in London. And thus, when a traveling German noble finds himself at the luxurious Hotel Mayonnaise without a guide to England's customs, who better to escort him than the amnesiac Englishman who materializes by his side? Beveridge provides the German with much useful knowledge, like giving a splendid tutor in bringing rail stations to a standstill, revealing the best way to fake a rabies attack, and showing how to crash London's most exclusive clubs ? quite literally. A much-loved Victorian comic masterpiece, this is the original anarchic novel that ushered in the age of Wodehouse and Waugh.

About the Author

J. Storer Clouston, OBE, the son of physician Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an old Orkney family. After being educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh and Magdalen College, Oxford he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practised as a lawyer. Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s.