Length3h 5m
About this audiobook
By the American author and satirist John Kendrick Bangs and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. The book is about a man writing a realist romance novel in which his main character (not coincidentally named Marguerite) is aware that she is being written about and is destined to be a part of a romance novel and fall in love with someone whom she detests. The heroine continually ruins the author's plans by attempting to exert his will over her; she refuses to love anyone other than the one she loves. (Goodreads)
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GenreLiterary Classics, Romance
Length3 hrs 5 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 9, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ILLUSTRATIONS
7VI ANOTHER CHAPTER FROM HARLEY
2I STUART HARLEY: REALIST
8VII A BREACH OF FAITH
3II A PRELIMINARY TRIAL
9VIII HARLEY RETURNS TO THE FRAY
4III THE RECONSTRUCTION BEGINS
10IX A SUMMONS NORTH
5IV A CHAPTER FROM HARLEY, WITH NOTES
11X BY WAY OF EPILOGUE
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6V AN EXPERIMENT
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