Green Overcoat (Select Bibliographies Reprint Series) - Hardcover

Belloc, Hilaire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0836959213 ISBN 13: 9780836959215

Publisher: Ayer Co Pub, 1970

Synopsis

You wrote something called The Green Elephant, and I have written something called The Green Overcoat. It is on this account that I dedicate to you my work The Green Overcoat, although (and I take this opportunity of reproaching you for the same) you did not dedicate to me your work The Green Elephant. An overcoat and an elephant have much in common, and also, alas! much in which they differ. An elephant can be taken off, and so can an overcoat; but, on the other hand, an overcoat can be put on, and an elephant can not. I understand that your elephant was not a real elephant; similarly my overcoat is not a real overcoat, but only an overcoat in a book.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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About this edition

• Publisher: Ayer Co Pub
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0836959213
• ISBN 13: 9780836959215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248