Wardon Allan Curtis was an American writer who contributed lively, inventive fiction to the popular magazines of the 1890s and 1900s. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton places its hapless protagonist in a series of increasingly bizarre situations that blend comic fantasy with the deadpan storytelling sensibility that makes literary absurdity work when it is done well and collapse when it is not.
Quirky, consistently entertaining, and rather enjoyable, these stories are a pleasure for readers who appreciate the odder and more inventive corners of late Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction. Download this free EPUB and brace yourself thoroughly for Mr. Middleton’s adventures.