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Autobiography Of A Pocket Handkerchief Paperback - 2004
by James Fenimore Cooper
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Set in Paris and New York in the 1830s, this fable is narrated by a pocket handkerchief, an article which at that time was used more for show than for blow. It is, thus, distinguished for its beauty rather than for the function of ordinary handkerchiefs. It begins its autobiography by establishing its ancestry back through several generations of flax plants, starting in America and then moving to France when a large shipment of flaxseed was captured by a French privateer. Every flax plant and its linen offspring enjoy a special kind of clairvoyance which unites their perceptions with those of both their vegetable ancestors and their human associates. For this reason all pieces of linen are wiser and better informed than is generally supposed, and the observations of a sophisticated pocket handkerchief provide a most fitting vehicle for the broad social satire of the story.
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Certain moral philosophers, with a due disdain of the flimsy foundations of human pride, have shown that every man is equally descended from a million of ancestors, within a given number of generations; thereby demonstrating that no prince exists who does not participate in the blood of some beggar, or any beggar who does not share in the blood of princes.]
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- Title Autobiography Of A Pocket Handkerchief
- Author James Fenimore Cooper
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 140
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Kessinger Publishing
- Date 2004-06-17
- ISBN 9781419108426 / 1419108425
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 7.5 x 0.3 in (23.50 x 19.05 x 0.76 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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