A Pickle for the Knowing Ones is a remarkable and utterly singular document of early American self-expression. Written by Timothy Dexter, an eccentric eighteenth-century Massachusetts merchant, the book is famously printed without punctuation — with a page of punctuation marks appended at the back for readers to insert themselves. Dexter’s rambling, phonetically spelled prose is by turns boastful, aggrieved, and surreal.
Whether read as folk art, curiosity, or proto-outsider literature, the work has no equal in American letters. Download this free public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg for a truly one-of-a-kind reading experience.