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The Bishop's Jaegers

by Thorne Smith
The Bishop's Jaegers by Thorne Smith
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To Bishop Waller drawers were merely the first move in a long, grim contest with the devil, a contest in which long, grim drawers served as the shock troops of righteousness. They were an important but unattractive gesture in the general direction of God — a grotesque but essential step in a complicated ritual of spiritual costuming.

So begins this hilarious hellion in which Thorne Smith, the author of the famous Topper books, tells, among other things, the story of a man with too much underwear and a girl with too few clothes and how they try to strike up a happy medium in a nudist camp. The story is not recommended for people who have work that must be done immediately or for those who are not prepared to laugh until it hurts.

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Release date: 1932

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Thorne Smith

James Thorne Smith Jr. (1892–1934), was an American writer of humorous supernaturnal fantasy fiction.

Best known today for his creation of Topper, Smith's comic fantasy fiction (most of it involving sex, lots of drinking, and supernatural transformations, and aided by racy illustrations) sold millions of copies in the early 1930s. Smith drank as steadily as his characters; his appearance in James Thurber's The Years With Ross involves an unexplained week-long disappearance.

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Smith was born in Annapolis, Maryland the son of a Navy commodore, attended Dartmouth College, and after hungry years in Greenwich Village working part-time as an advertising agent, Smith achieved meteoric success with the publication of Topper in 1926. He died of a heart attack in 1934 while vacationing in Florida.

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