The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including 'The Brother'

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Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; THE RIGHT SORT OF FROG; THE ODD GUINEA; SHERRY AND BÉZIQUE; CARNIVAL; A THING OF DUTY; SUN-STRUCK PIGEONS; DOWN THE HIGH; ON VESUVIUS; A GUINNESS; WEHRMACHT; ZURICH TRAMCARS; UP A TREE; THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL; HATTER'S CASTLE; CATS AND DUSTBINS; IN THE COFFIN; ON TOUR IN FRANCE; STRADIVARIUS; ARRAN BANNERS; AFRICAN KING; THE BOOTS OF CORTEZ; COFFEE FOR ONE; MEETING OF THE WATERS; SWANS ON DOG-LEADS; ON THE TRAM; BOILING PORRIDGE; SOME DREAD DISEASE; A MONKISH GARMENT; EMPTY HEAVEN; WILD SHEEP; WARTS; THE DELIGHTS OF BRAY; AND HEIDELBERG.;Includes 'The Brother', O'Brien's most lasting comic creation, these are the hilarious escapades of Keats and Chapman, which first appeared in Flann O'Brien's legendary column in The Irish Times as shaggy dog stories - always ending in a terrible pun - that demonstrate his extraordinary comic inventiveness. The Brother is the quintessential Dubliner, an authority on every topic who always knows best, and has become a loved Irish comic character and is the author of the great ode to stout.