A Bayard From Bengal de F. Anstey - 2009-06-04

IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. A laudable nobleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., journeys from his country India to England, with his perfect English and demeanors, which instantly make him as a foreigner, and boards on a privileged series of adventures. These tales are the sum of the productive imaginings of Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., a pen name for the comedian F. Anstey, which is a more fictitious name for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Whether saving a bridal lady from a desperate bull or get charmed with the said bridal lady, Mr. Bosh, B. A. cannot avoid but act with the indispensable fun to draw our imagination. </br></br>A Bayard from Bengal consists of these stories: From Calcutta to Cambridge Oversea Route; How Mr Bhosh Delivered a Damsel from a Demented Cow; The Involuntary Fascinator; A Kick from a Friendly Foot; The Duel to the Death; Lord Jolly is Satisfied; The Adventure of the Unwieldy Gifthorse; A Rightabout Facer for Mr Bhosh; The Dark Horse; Trust Her Not!… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. A laudable nobleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., journeys from his country India to England, with his perfect English and demeanors, which instantly make him as a foreigner, and boards on a privileged series of adventures. These tales are the sum of the productive imaginings of Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., a pen name for the comedian F. Anstey, which is a more fictitious name for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Whether saving a bridal lady from a desperate bull or get charmed with the said bridal lady, Mr. Bosh, B. A. cannot avoid but act with the indispensable fun to draw our imagination. A Bayard from Bengal consists of these stories: From Calcutta to Cambridge Oversea Route; How Mr Bhosh Delivered a Damsel from a Demented Cow; The Involuntary Fascinator; A Kick from a Friendly Foot; The Duel to the Death; Lord Jolly is Satisfied; The Adventure of the Unwieldy Gifthorse; A Rightabout Facer for Mr Bhosh; The Dark Horse; Trust Her Not! She is Fooling Thee!; Stone Walls Do Not Make a… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. A Bayard from Bengal CHAPTER I FROM CALCUTTA TO CAMBRIDGE OVERSEA ROUTE At sea the stoutest stomach jerks, Far, far away from native soil, When Ocean's heaving waterworks Burst out in Brobdingnagian boil! Stanza written at Sea, by H. B. J. (unpublished). The waves of Neptune erected their seething and angry crests to incredible altitudes; overhead in fuliginous storm-clouds the thunder rumbled its terrific bellows, and from time to time the ghastly flare of lightning illuminated the entire neighbourhood. The tempest howled like a lost dog through the cordage of the good ship Rohilkund (Captain O. Williams), which lurched through the vasty deep as though overtaken by the drop too much. At one moment her poop was pointed towards celestial regions; at another it aimed itself at the recesses of Davey Jones's locker; and such was the fury of the gale that only a paucity of the ship's passengers remained perpendicular, and Mr Chunder Bindabun Bhosh was recumbent on his beam end,… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. A Bayard from Bengal CHAPTER I FROM CALCUTTA TO CAMBRIDGE OVERSEA ROUTE At sea the stoutest stomach jerks, Far, far away from native soil, When Ocean's heaving waterworks Burst out in Brobdingnagian boil! Stanza written at Sea, by H. B. J. (unpublished). The waves of Neptune erected their seething and angry crests to incredible altitudes; overhead in fuliginous storm-clouds the thunder rumbled its terrific bellows, and from time to time the ghastly flare of lightning illuminated the entire neighbourhood. The tempest howled like a lost dog through the cordage of the good ship Rohilkund (Captain O. Williams), which lurched through the vasty deep as though overtaken by the drop too much. At one moment her poop was pointed towards celestial regions; at another it aimed itself at the recesses of Davey Jones's locker; and such was the fury of the gale that only a paucity of the ship's passengers remained perpendicular, and Mr Chunder Bindabun Bhosh was recumbent on his beam end,… Leer más

MP3 Audio CD. A laudable nobleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., journeys from his country India to England, with his perfect English and demeanors, which instantly make him as a foreigner, and boards on a privileged series of adventures. These tales are the sum of the productive imaginings of Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., a pen name for the comedian F. Anstey, which is a more fictitious name for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Whether saving a bridal lady from a desperate bull or get charmed with the said bridal lady, Mr. Bosh, B. A. cannot avoid but act with the indispensable fun to draw our imagination. A Bayard from Bengal consists of these stories: From Calcutta to Cambridge Oversea Route; How Mr Bhosh Delivered a Damsel from a Demented Cow; The Involuntary Fascinator; A Kick from a Friendly Foot; The Duel to the Death; Lord Jolly is Satisfied; The Adventure of the Unwieldy Gifthorse; A Rightabout Facer for Mr Bhosh; The Dark Horse; Trust Her Not! She is Fooling Thee!; Stone Walls Do Not Make a… Leer más

Methuen & Co, 1900. Trade Paperback. 114 pages. Later printing. Very good copy in yellow illustrated wrappers (paperback). Covers mildly soiled. Mild edge and corner wear. Pages are browned.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New.