The Flaneur in Sydney single work   prose   satire  
Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 The Flaneur in Sydney
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The 'Flaneur' deals with two subjects in [his] weekly column: a suggestion for dealing with recent inter-personal conflicts in the Legislative Assembly, and an overview of recently published literature. The titles discussed are: Oliver Wendell Holmes's Guardian Angel, The Savage Club Papers, and George Augustus Sala's Notes and Sketches of the Paris Exhibition.

Notes

  • Epigraph: Que quiero que sepa, señor andante, que en estos lugares cortos de todo se trata y de todo se murmura - Don Quixote

    Author's translation: I wish you to understand, my dear Sir, that in this little hole of a place, nothing is too little to talk about.

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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 5079 29 February 1868 7019625 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 5
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