Author: Sir James Matthew BarriePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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My Lady Nicotine ; Better Dead
Author: Sir James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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My Lady Nicotine. Better Dead
Author: James Matthew BarrieMy Lady Nicotine - Better Dead
Author: James M. BarrieMy Lady Nicotine
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Better Dead
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
My Lady Nicotine
Author: J. M. BarriePublisher: VM eBooks
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
MATRIMONY AND SMOKING COMPARED. The circumstances in which I gave up smoking were these: I was a mere bachelor, drifting toward what I now see to be a tragic middle age. I had become so accustomed to smoke issuing from my mouth that I felt incomplete without it; indeed, the time came when I could refrain from smoking if doing nothing else, but hardly during the hours of toil. To lay aside my pipe was to find myself soon afterward wandering restlessly round my table. No blind beggar was ever more abjectly led by his dog, or more loath to cut the string. I am much better without tobacco, and already have a difficulty in sympathizing with the man I used to be. Even to call him up, as it were, and regard him without prejudice is a difficult task, for we forget the old selves on whom we have turned our backs, as we forget a street that has been reconstructed. Does the freed slave always shiver at the crack of a whip? I fancy not, for I recall but dimly, and without acute suffering, the horrors of my smoking days. There were nights when I awoke with a pain at my heart that made me hold my breath. I did not dare move. After perhaps ten minutes of dread, I would shift my position an inch at a time.
My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke
Author: J. M. BarriePublisher: DigiCat
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Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke" by J. M. Barrie. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke
Author: James M. BarriePublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849628728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
My Lady Nicotine "—a book that suggests but is very unlike " The Reveries of a Bachelor." The former is urban : the latter is provincial. A briar pipe filled with Arcadia Mixture starts the reveries in the one ; a hearth fire, in the other. The five bachelors in " My Lady Nicotine " seem to be utterly dissimilar in tastes and feelings—and have only one bond of union, their common love for the famous Arcadia Mixture. The solemnity with which they treat their pipes; their assured superiority to everybody outside of the circle which knows and appreciates that mysterious brand of tobacco ; the sentimental selfishness of their bachelor existence, and the delicate humor with which the quiet episodes are narrated—these are some of the charming qualities of the book. But the crowning humor of it is that the story is told by one of their number who boldly announces in the first chapter that he has married, and his wife has won him from his pipe and his comrades. He cheaply moralizes on their enslavement, and then in reveries calls up the happy days when he smoked with them. The closing chapter is a most subtle piece of writing. The narrator praises his constancy to his promise never to smoke again, and adds: " I have not even any craving for the Arcadia now, though it is a tobacco that should only be smoked by our greatest men." Then he confesses that when his wife is asleep and all the house is still, he sits with his empty briar in his mouth, and listens to the taps of a pipe in the hands of a smoker (whom he has never seen) on the other side of the wall. " When the man through the wall lights up I put my cold pipe in my mouth and we have a quiet hour together."
The Works of J.M. Barrie: My lady Nicotine. Margaret Ogilvy. 1920
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
My Lady Nicotine
Author: James Matthew BarriePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Explore the humorous tales of "My Lady Nicotine." Penned by Barrie, this collection of short stories and essays from the 1890s offers a unique blend of fiction, culture, and humanities. Each piece is a testament to Barrie's storytelling prowess, making it a treasure for readers who enjoy collective works.