Augustus Carp, Esq. By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man

by SirHenryHowarthBashford (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1987

  $3.93

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.26

  First published in 1924, Augustus Carp Esq is a spoof autobiography: a deadpan comic account of a climb to the heights of mediocrity by a humourless, religious oaf told in his own self-important, sermonizing tone. He is assiduous in exposing the sins of others while ignoring his own.