The Nervous Wreck
| Year of Publication |
1923
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
326 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Publisher |
G. Howard Watt
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
A farce about Henry Williams, a Pittsburgh chemist who seeks to cure his hypochondria at an Arizona dude ranch. Pittsburgh becomes a running joke among the Westerners: “Pittsburgh! I'm tired of hearing about Pittsburgh. You'd think the sun rose and set in Pittsburgh.”
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| Notes |
E. J. Rath is a pseudonym of J. Chauncey Corey Brainerd (1874-1922) and Edith Rathbone Brainerd (1885-1922).
First serialized in a magazine in 1921.
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| Author Biography |
Chauncey Corey Brainerd (1874-1922), a journalist and author, married Edith Rathbone Jacobs in 1903. The couple died when the roof of Washington, DC's Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed due to heavy snow. Edith Rathbone Jacobs Brainerd (1885-1922), born in Mt. Vernon, New York, was a correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. She married Chauncey Corey Brainerd in 1903. The couple died when the roof of Washington, DC's Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed due to heavy snow.
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| Time |
1920s
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