03463cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000340012624500470016024600450020726400510025230000470030333600260035033700260037633800360040250000310043850509470046950802140141652012700163053400660290065300130296685600720297985600430305199900190309474533UtSlPG20260610134727.0mcr n260607r20241923utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a23014380  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPN1 aWard, Christopher,d1868-194314aThe triumph of the nut, and other parodies1 aThe triumph of the nut, & other parodies 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2024  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2024-10-060 aThe triumph of the nut, or Too many marriages -- The flame that failed: Réchaufféd from "The Vehement Flame" -- Blacker oxen, by Gertrude Otherton -- Glimpsing the moon, with an obeisance to Edith Wharton -- The vanishing point, with apologies to "The breaking point" -- Babbit on Sinclair Lewis -- Joseph and the bright shawl -- The judge, or Turning the tea tables, illustrating the influence of Henry James upon an otherwise perfectly good novelist, Rebecca West -- The perils of Peregrine à la Jeffrey Farnol -- One of hers, long after Willa Cather -- Paradise be damned! by F. Scott Fitzjazzer -- The trials of Triona, in Locke step -- Captain Bloodless, an episode, far from Sabatini -- Some freedom! "With a great price ($2.00) obained I This Freedom!" -- Certain people of no importance, not by Kathleen Norris -- The blunderer of the Wasteland, by Jane Grey -- The dry land, another kind of "Waste Land" inspired by T.S. Eliot.  aRichard Tonsing, Charlene Taylor, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)  a"The Triumph of the Nut" by Christopher Ward is a collection of parodies written in the early 20th century. This humorous work features a variety of satirical tales that poke fun at contemporary literature and societal norms through clever and inventive characters. The opening story introduces John Webster, whose life takes a surreal twist as he begins to perceive the women in his life not as individuals but as houses, leading him on a bizarre quest for personal liberation.  At the start of the book, we meet John Webster, an inventor of washing machines, who unexpectedly experiences a whimsical mental shift. He humorously concludes that the women around him—including his wife and stenographer—are actually houses, prompting him to inspect and evaluate their worth like a real estate agent. As Webster contemplates his new worldview, he decides he no longer loves his wife and seeks to pursue a relationship with Natalie, his stenographer. His absurd yet comical declaration of love and desire for freedom from marriage is juxtaposed with his increasingly eccentric behavior, including his naked musings about writing and life, all while leading to an inevitable and ridiculous conclusion of self-discovery. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Henry Holt and Company, 1923  aParodies4 uhttps://archive.org/details/triumphofnutothe00chri/page/n7/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74533  c115258d115258