The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms. Ian Thornton

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

       Dedication

      Prologue:

       A Refracted Tale of Two Wordy Old Gentlemen in a Blue Prism

Part One

1 Around the Time When Adolf Was a Glint in His First Cousin’s Eye

2 Pawn to Queen Four

3 Serendipity’s Day Off

4 The Butterflies Flutter By

Part Two

1 Fools Rush In

2 A Vision of Love (Wearing Boxing Gloves)

3 Drago Thoms: Pythagoras, Madness, and an Indian Summer in Bed

4 The Kama Sutra, Ganika, and Russian Vampires

5 We Are the Music Makers. We Are the Dreamers of Dreams.

6 A Sweet Deity of Debauchery

       7 A Day (or So) in the Country

       8 Just a Lucky Man Who Made the Grade

       9 The Accusative Case

       10 The Black Hand

       11 The Day Abu Hasan Broke Wind

       12 A Microcosm of the Apocalypse

       13 A Farewell of Scarlet Wax and Gardenia

       Part Three

       1 And the Ass Saw the Angel

       2 It Only Hurts When I Laugh (Part I)

       3 The Die Is Cast (aka Les Jeux Sont Faits)

       4 The Unlikely Bedfellow

       5 “Ciao Bello!”

       6 The March of Don Quixote

       7 In No-Man’s-Land

       8 “A Shadow Can Never Claim the Beauty of the Image”

       9 The Birth of Blanche in a Dangerous Ladbroke Grove Pub

       10 Cicero’s Fine Oceanarium of Spewed Wonders (1920–1932)

       11 Suffragettes, Mermaids, and Hooligans (1932)

       12 Let’s Rusticate Again

       13 Jackboots, Cleopatra, and the Bearded Lady (1932–1936)

       14 The Girl in the Tatty Blue Dress

       15 She Had a Most Immoral Eye (1937–1940)

       16 Archibald’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

       17 Then There Were Three Again

       18 Music, Brigadiers, and Marigold (1940)

       19 It Only Hurts When I Laugh (Part II)

       20 “Gawd Bless Ya, Gav’nah!”

       21 A Giant in the Promised Land

       22 Pepper’s Ghost, Fluffers, and a Brief Encounter

       Part Four

       1 “Everybody Ought to Go Careful in a City Like This” (1945)

       2 The Return of Abu Hasan

       3 The Brigadier’s Au Revoir

       4 The Veil

       5 A Blue Rose by Any Other Name

       6 Dragons, Confucius, and Snooker

       7 “I Know Who You Are!”

       8 The Death and Life of a Grim Reaper

       Epilogue

       Notes СКАЧАТЬ