The Adventures of Footfruit or The Enthusiast
Another Draft of Footfruit: Chapter 1
Crown Me with Hairpins
Notes
Key to the Figures of Speech
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
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The Adventures of Footfruit or The Enthusiast
Another Draft of Footfruit: Chapter 1
Crown Me with Hairpins
Notes
Key to the Figures of Speech
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
211
217
220
221
234
235
239
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Illustrations
The Figures of Speech were published as a guessing game in a book with this title in 1954. So that the game can still be played, the titles are not given here but on p. 234.
Uncle Jake as a Snake, from Writings and Drawings (1974), p. 36 19 Figure of Speech 20 Bird with big bill in boots (not previously published) 21 Chinaman with fish, from Mervyn Peake Review, no. 11
(Autumn 1980), p. 2
Figure of Speech
‘I saw a peacock’, from Ride a Cock-horse (1940)
Figure of Speech
‘He must be an artist’, from Satire (December 1934), p. 17* 29 ‘Ode to a bowler hat’, from Satire (December 1934), p. 17* 30 Figure of Speech 32 Figure of Speech 33 Rumpelstiltskin, from Radio Times, vol. 101, no. 1314
(17 December 1948), p. 20
Manuscript page of the first five stanzas of ‘The Dwarf of
Battersea’, from A Book of Nonsense (1972), p. 16
Old man resting, from A Book of Nonsense (1972), p. 88
The daily help, from Facet, vol. 1, no. 1 (1946), p. 9
Figure of Speech
Figure of Speech
Figure of Speech
Flay and Steerpike watch Swelter, from Peake Studies, vol. 7,
no. 2 (April 2001), p. 7
Swelter with kitchen urchin from Titus Groan (1968),
facing p. 368
Figure of Speech
Yak on a hilltop, from A Book of Nonsense (1972), p. 38
Figure of Speech
Figure of Speech
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