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SELMAN-TROYTT

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AUTHOR

P.J. Barrington, Esq

PUBLISH DATE

Oct 2008

PRICE

£6.99

ISBN

ISBN13: 978-1-9058472-59-4

FORMAT

Paperback

EXTENT

308 Pages

A PARODY OF VICTORIAN WRITING THAT WILL HAVE YOU IN STITCHES

A comic tour-de-force in the tradition of Rabelais and Swift, The Selman-Troytt Papers meticulously presents the life of a fictitious Victorian scientist obsessed with his bodily emissions. The hoax is gloriously comprehensive: there are letters, diaries, extracts from his works, photographs, a bibliography and even a preface to the (non-existent) 1951 edition.

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The Critics


	'Before Selman-Troytt people had little or no knowledge of their own bodies, just as before Shakespeare they had little or no knowledge of their humanity.'	PROFESSOR MINSKOV, MINSKOV INSTITUTE OF STIMULUS, MINSK
	‘Selflessly recording his bodily functions for the advancement of science, Jeremy Selman-Troytt (1868-1916) was a trailblazer . . . Kudos to P J Barrington . . . Victorian convention will never appear the same again’	FINANCIAL TIMES

The Author

P J Barrington, the ‘editor’, is a graduate from Mull University and one of the most devout Chrstians on the island. Although opposed to ejaculation on religious grounds – such as churchyards – he agreed to bring his expertise to this project in order to further the cause of scientific research.

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