Project Gutenberg 2005-09-18 Public domain in the USA. 80 McCutcheon, George Barr 1866 1928 Fisher, Harrison 1875 1934 Hapgood, Theodore B. (Theodore Brown) 1871 The Husbands of Edith Reading ease score: 84.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. E-text prepared by Louise Pryor, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Husbands of Edith" by George Barr McCutcheon is a comedic novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the character Brock, who finds himself entangled in a curious predicament involving his friend Roxbury Medcroft's wife, Edith. The narrative explores themes of identity and friendship as Brock is thrust into a farcical situation that requires him to impersonate Medcroft while he tends to his urgent business affairs. At the start of the story, Brock is introduced as an American architect vacationing in Paris. As he enjoys a meal at a hotel and catches up with an old friend, he learns that Medcroft has a pressing dilemma that involves going to Vienna but is unable to attend himself. Medcroft persuades Brock to impersonate him at an important convention, setting the stage for a whirlwind of comedic misunderstandings. The opening of the novel brilliantly captures the tension and humor inherent in Brock's reluctant acceptance of the role, emphasizing the absurdity of pretending to be someone's husband while navigating the complexities of social expectations and the unforeseen complications tied to Medcroft's wife and their relationship. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 242470 242233 2024-10-07T12:00:43.559249 2023-09-07T12:10:38.703632 text/html text/html 243866 2020-12-12T13:53:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 637574 2020-12-12T13:53:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 668363 2024-10-07T12:00:47.649208 application/epub+zip 669420 2024-10-07T12:00:44.124223 application/epub+zip 119104 2024-10-07T12:00:43.818221 application/epub+zip 748551 2024-10-07T12:00:50.506190 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 731630 2024-10-07T12:00:47.193243 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 186781 2022-09-08T07:09:29.448706 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 224021 223924 2024-10-07T12:00:42.743257 2023-09-07T12:10:38.227666 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 223712 2020-12-12T13:53:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 87598 2020-12-12T13:53:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 223722 2020-12-12T13:53:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 87570 2020-12-12T13:53:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22080 2024-10-07T12:00:50.653186 application/rdf+xml 17318 2024-10-07T12:00:43.889242 image/jpeg 3865 2024-10-07T12:00:43.856221 image/jpeg 651891 2024-10-07T12:00:43.619256 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia