{"product_id":"artemus-ward-in-london-and-other-papers-volume-three","title":"Artemus Ward in London, and Other Papers (Volume Three)","description":"229, 8 pp. Volume three only. Frontispiece and 5 plates by J.H. Howard. Pseudonymous work by Charles Farrar Browne, who influenced Mark Twain and was on the staff of The Carpet-Bag and Vanity Fair. CONTENTS: Artemus Ward in London; Essays and Sketches. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Farrar Browne, better known to the world as \"Artemus Ward,\" was born at Waterford, Oxford County, Maine, on the twenty-sixth of April, 1834, and died of consumption at Southampton, England, on Wednesday, the sixth of March, 1867. Charles was partially educated at the Waterford school, when family circumstances induced his parents to apprentice him to learn the rudiments of printing in the office of the \"Skowhegan Clarion,\" published some miles to the north of his native village.  Here he passed through the dreadful ordeal to which a printer's \"devil\" is generally subjected.  He always kept his temper; and his eccentric boy jokes are even now told by the residents of Skowhegan. While engaged on the \"Carpet-Bag,\" the subject of our sketch closely studied the theatre and courted the society of actors and actresses.  It was in this way that he gained that correct and valuable knowledge of the texts and characters of the drama, which enabled him in after years to burlesque them so successfully.  The humorous writings of Seba Smith were his models, and the oddities of \"John Phoenix\" were his especial admiration.--Gutenburg","brand":"G.W. Carleton \u0026 Co., Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39958194257990,"sku":"2323951","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2323951.jpg?v=1649366194","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/artemus-ward-in-london-and-other-papers-volume-three","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}