Project Gutenberg 2008-01-07 Public domain in the USA. 84 Anstey, F. 1856 1934 Guthrie, Thomas Anstey Partridge, Bernard 1861 1945 Partridge, John Bernard Partridge, J. Bernard Gould, Bernard The Tinted Venus: A Farcical Romance Reading ease score: 81.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by David Clarke, Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "The Tinted Venus: A Farcical Romance" by F. Anstey is a novel written in the late 19th century. The book revolves around Leander Tweddle, a hairdresser who unexpectedly finds himself in a comedic and chaotic situation involving an animated statue of the goddess Aphrodite, which leaves him grappling with matters of attraction and engagement. With a blend of farce and humor, the story promises to take readers on a light-hearted journey through misunderstandings and the complexities of romantic entanglements. At the start of the story, we meet Leander Tweddle, who is preparing for an outing with his friend Jauncy and their intended ladies, the Parkinson sisters. However, as they navigate social dynamics and anxieties regarding their romantic interests, particularly Leander’s hidden engagement to Matilda, the atmosphere is charged with comedic tension. The group’s visit to the Rosherwich Gardens is fraught with unexpected complications, not least concerning Leander's relationship with the lively Ada Parkinson and his inadvertent entanglement with the statue of Aphrodite, setting the stage for comedic mishaps that follow. The opening chapters introduce readers to a cast of characters with rich personalities, hinting at the humorous and romantic misadventures that await. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fantasy fiction Humorous stories PR Text Humor Browsing: Humour Browsing: Fiction 397114 397104 2024-10-10T11:30:10.802341 2023-09-11T04:01:15.110088 text/html text/html 402770 2020-09-14T09:24:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 786473 2020-09-14T09:25:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 892178 2024-10-10T11:30:21.139305 application/epub+zip 897019 2024-10-10T11:30:14.583329 application/epub+zip 235030 2024-10-10T11:30:13.034331 application/epub+zip 1092012 2024-10-10T11:30:25.711263 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1048836 2024-10-10T11:30:19.976315 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 361227 2022-09-11T08:46:20.187532 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356384 356161 2024-10-10T11:30:09.339332 2023-09-11T04:01:14.052072 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 356193 2020-09-14T09:24:24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 140108 2020-09-14T09:25:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 356187 2020-09-14T09:24:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 140077 2020-09-14T09:25:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22755 2024-10-10T11:30:25.851238 application/rdf+xml 13264 2024-10-10T11:30:13.633324 image/jpeg 3121 2024-10-10T11:30:13.341309 image/jpeg 870481 2024-10-10T11:30:10.872355 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