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Locker, Frederick

 
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Sinopsis

Witty vignettes and humane reflections from a late-Victorian mind

This collection blends playful humor with thoughtful insight, offering short, deft sketches and sparkling prose. Read in a steady, easy rhythm, it invites curiosity about people, art, and life in a bygone era without losing its human heart.

Arranged as brief essays and vivid anecdotes, the book surveys society, culture, and everyday pleasures with warmth and wit. The pieces are accessible and entertaining, yet they often linger on the moments that reveal character, kindness, and the quirks of human nature.

Ideal for readers who enjoy concise observations, literary humor, and passages that feel both observant and comforting.

  • Brief, self-contained sketches that mix humor with humane insight
  • Thoughtful reflections on art, friendship, and daily life
  • Vivid character glimpses from a late‑Victorian perspective
  • Bright, accessible prose suitable for casual reading or gifting

Ideal for readers of Victorian essays and fans of lucid, lightly ironic storytelling.

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Reseña del editor

Excerpt from Patchwork

Such volumes are generally a miscellaneous gathering of fragments, which the editor fancies, in a vague sort of way, will be amusing or edifying to the general public. Now as my detached pieces were brought together with no idea of pleasing anybody but myself, I hope they will have a more individual flavour, and so, in some measure, escape this very serious charge.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Patchwork

I do not know whether a reference to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary would show that a Commonplace-book is a book kept by a commonplace sort of person, but I should not be surprised if the Doctor had thought so, and, certainly, there is a very general opinion that collections of such scraps are mighty poor reading: in sustained and coherent interest not a whit better than the Doctor's own lexicon.

Such volumes are generally a miscellaneous gathering of fragments, which the editor fancies, in a vague sort of way, will be amusing or edifying to the general public. Now as my detached pieces were brought together with no idea of pleasing anybody but myself, I hope they will have a more individual flavour, and so, in some measure, escape this very serious charge.

I fear that I may annoy some readers, for, though I have taken pains, no doubt I have sorely maltreated many of the extracts, picked up, as they were, from all sorts of people, in all kinds of places, from the corners of newspapers, and such like.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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