The Youth of Parnassus and Other Stories, includes: The Youth of Parnassus The Will to Live. I. - The Will to Live. 11. - The Claim of the Past - A Broken Journey - The Sub-Warden - Idyll - - Buller Intervening - The Optimist - - . The Yoath of Parnassw The Youth of Parnassus H E came straight to Oxford from his American home, Parnassus City, a town in the Western State of Indiana. The moral of the titular tale is that youths should not come from raw Indiana and Methodism unto the cultured center of Oxford, England; because culture is sure to ruin the youths' natural taste, so that they can no longer abide the one or the other-to wit, Indiana and Methodism. The rest of the stories are clever in conception and in dialogue, for Mr. Smith has a pretty wit of his own. He gently makes fun of almost everything that we cherish or enjoy. Fortunately for its own peace of mind, the proletariate will probably not read Mr. Smith's entertaining stories.
- ISBN10 150275813X
- ISBN13 9781502758132
- Publish Date 8 October 2014 (first published 16 August 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 50
- Language English