Project Gutenberg 2007-10-02 Public domain in the USA. 53 Mitford, Mary Russell 1787 1855 Mitford, Miss The London Visitor Produced by David Widger "The London Visitor" by Mary Russell Mitford is a humorous short narrative written during the early 19th century. The book centers around the experiences of a befuddled narrator who grapples with the peculiarities of social interactions and the eccentricities of a peculiar guest, Mr. Thompson, who embodies the quintessential London visitor. The story unfolds as the narrator recounts her encounters with Mr. Thompson, an enigmatic gentleman who appears to be identical in manner and appearance to multiple other men named Thompson. As she navigates social gatherings in Berkshire, she becomes increasingly perplexed by the uncanny similarities between these various Thompsons, each exhibiting similar conversation styles and behaviors, all while being remarkably unremarkable. The narrative conveys not only the humor of mistaken identities and social requirements but also reflects on the intricacies of class and society in a lighthearted manner, while poking fun at the conventions surrounding visitors from London. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction Country life -- England -- Fiction Pastoral fiction PR Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 42896 42905 2024-09-10T05:29:09.114388 2023-09-10T08:56:26.883834 text/html text/html 38024 2015-12-15T10:47:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 14733 2015-12-15T10:48:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 65783 2024-09-10T05:29:12.609377 application/epub+zip 64798 2024-09-10T05:29:10.815386 application/epub+zip 64798 2024-09-10T05:29:09.578380 application/epub+zip 161106 2024-09-10T05:29:13.973438 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 154793 2024-09-10T05:29:12.111390 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 154944 2022-09-10T15:34:46.996697 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 35252 35245 2024-09-10T05:29:08.929392 2023-09-10T08:56:26.724869 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 35046 2015-12-15T10:48:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 13924 2015-12-15T10:48:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 35037 2015-12-15T10:47:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13901 2015-12-15T10:48:10 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20900 2024-09-10T05:29:14.100379 application/rdf+xml 13757 2024-09-10T05:29:10.367404 image/jpeg 3565 2024-09-10T05:29:10.176422 image/jpeg 67284 2024-09-10T05:29:09.119419 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