The Suburbans (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Suburbans (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Suburbans All the world knows that the suburbans are a people to themselves. Persons of culture, of whom the more respectable quarter of the world is full, have for a generation or so made a point of speaking of the suburbans with hushed voices and a certain contempt. Among the superior class the very word suburban nowadays means a great deal more than it was ever intended to mean. Indeed, though, philologically considered, it is quite an innocent word, with but one meaning, the superior mind has latterly contrived to pack into it mean ings enough to start a respectable dictionary. To the superior mind, in fact, suburban is a sort of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.