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Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow by L.A.G. Strong First Edition Gollancz 1932
Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow by L.A.G. Strong First Edition Gollancz 1932
Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow by L.A.G. Strong First Edition Gollancz 1932
Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow by L.A.G. Strong First Edition Gollancz 1932
Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow by L.A.G. Strong First Edition Gollancz 1932

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Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow by L.A.G. Strong First Edition Gollancz 1932. Short story collection. Light offsetting to endpapers. No foxing and unblemished throughout. Covers are VG. In a near VG dust jacket which is priced at 7/6.

In Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow and Other Stories (1932), L.A.G. Strong's witty collection of tales, the titular yarn unfolds in a quaint English village where rakish charmer Harry, self-styled modern Don Juan, woos women with silver-tongued flair. His latest quarry: prim spinster Miss Pringle, whose garden wheelbarrow becomes an unlikely emblem of domestic bliss he feigns to covet.
But Harry's suave seduction crumbles when Miss Pringle's bulldog savages his trousers mid-flirtation, tumbling him into the barrow amid compost and chaos. Humiliated, he flees as villagers guffaw, his libertine swagger reduced to a muddy farce.
Strong's gentle satire skewers romantic pretension with wry humor, blending rural eccentricity and human folly in these compact, character-driven vignettes.

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Don Juan and the Wheelbarrow by L.A.G. Strong First Edition Gollancz 1932

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