Torchy and Vee. Ford Sewell
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Название: Torchy and Vee
Автор: Ford Sewell
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066241162
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Sewell Ford
Torchy and Vee
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066241162
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
In the Nature of an Alibi
Some of these stories were written while the Great War was still on. So the setting and local coloring and atmosphere and all that sort of thing, such as it is, came from those strenuous days when we heroic civilians read the war extras with stern, unflinching eye, bought as many Liberty bonds as we were told we should, and subscribed to various drives as cheerfully as we might. Have you forgotten your reactions of a few short months ago? Perhaps then, these may revive your memory of some of them.
You may note with disappointment that Torchy got no nearer to the front-line trenches than Bridgeport, Conn. That is a sentiment the writer shares with you. But the blame lies with an overcautious government which hesitated, perhaps from super-humane reasons, from turning loose on a tottering empire a middle-aged semi-literary person who was known to handle a typewriter with such reckless abandon. And where he could not go himself he refused to send another. So Torchy remained on this side, and whether or not his stay was a total loss is for you to decide.
S. F.
TORCHY AND VEE
CHAPTER I