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100 1 _aJones, Robert Webster,
_d1874-1947
245 1 0 _aLight interviews with shades
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-01-27
505 0 _aBluebeard tells why he killed wives -- Queen Elizabeth discloses why she never married -- John Paul Jones and a grogless navy -- Joshua advises daylight saving -- King Solomon's family vacation trip -- Brigham Young endorses woman suffrage -- Hippocrates on modern doctors -- Methuselah gives longevity secrets -- Jesse James talks on tipping -- Shakespeare mentions movies -- Adam condemns present fashions -- Captain Kidd speaks on tag days -- Alfred the Great tries to find prosperous king -- Old King Cole gives views on prohibition -- King Henry VIII admits some matrimonial mistakes -- Don Quixote says he "wasn't so crazy as some modern reformers" -- Pharaoh solves servant problem -- Nero discusses jazz -- Lord Bacon muses on ciphers.
508 _aTim Lindell 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.)
520 _a"Light Interviews with Shades" by Robert Webster Jones is a collection of humorous satirical interviews with historical and fictional characters, written in the early 20th century. The book features prominent figures such as Bluebeard, Queen Elizabeth, and others, as they candidly discuss various aspects of life, relationships, and society from their unique, and often comedic, perspectives. The opening of the work introduces readers to the character of Bluebeard, who is presented as surprisingly amiable and self-reflective during an interview. The narrator, acting as a reporter, engages with Bluebeard about the reasons behind his notorious reputation for marital misdeeds, revealing a series of comedic anecdotes about his ex-wives and the misunderstandings that led him to his infamous path. As Bluebeard shares his stories, the tone sets a lighthearted and witty style that continues throughout the collection, as readers are invited to explore the thoughts and lives of various historical figures in an entertaining, if tongue-in-cheek, manner. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cPhiladelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1922
653 _aAmerican wit and humor
653 _aSpiritualism -- Humor
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/lightinterviewsw00jone/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75226
999 _c115951
_d115951