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Olla Podrida
A miscellany from Captain Marryat: a traveller's diary on the Continent alongside stories, sketches and papers, written with a sailor's humour.
"Olla Podrida" by Frederick Marryat is a collection of shorter writings: a journal of travel in Europe, with short stories, humorous sketches and articles. The title is the Spanish name of a stew of many ingredients.
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Reader, did you ever feel in that peculiarly distressing state of mind in which one oppressing idea displaces or colours every other, absorbing, intermingling with, empoisoning, and, like the filth of the harpy, turning every thing into disgust—when a certain incubus rides upon the brain, as the Old Man of the Mountain did upon the shoulders of Sinbad, burdening, irritating, and rendering existence a misery—when, looking around, you see but one object perched everywhere and grinning at you—when even what you put into your mouth tastes of but that one something, and the fancied taste is so unpleasant as almost to prevent deglutition—when every sound which vibrates in your ear appears to strike the same discordant note, and all and every thing will remind you of the one only thing which you would fain forget;—have you ever felt any thing like this, reader? If you have not, then thank God, by way of grace, before you out with your knife and fork and begin to cut up the contents of these pages.
I have been and am now suffering under one of these varieties of “Phobias,” and my disease is a Politicophobia, I will describe the symptoms.
Contents
- 01Chapter One.
- 02Chapter Two.
- 03Chapter Three.
- 04Chapter Four.
- 05Chapter Five.
- 06Chapter Six.
- 07Chapter Seven.
- 08Chapter Eight.
- 09Chapter Nine.
- 10Chapter Ten.
- 11Chapter Eleven.
- 12Chapter Twelve.
- 13Chapter Thirteen.
- 14Chapter Fourteen.
- 15Chapter Fifteen.
- 16Chapter Sixteen.
- 17Chapter Seventeen.
- 18Chapter Eighteen.
- 19Chapter Nineteen.
- 20Chapter Twenty.
- 21Chapter Twenty One.
- 22Chapter Twenty Two.
- 23Chapter Twenty Three.
- 24Chapter Twenty Four.
- 25Chapter Twenty Five.
- 26Chapter Twenty Six.
- 27Chapter Twenty Seven.
- 28Chapter Twenty Eight.
- 29Chapter Twenty Nine.
- 30Chapter Thirty.
- 31Chapter Thirty One.
- 32Chapter Thirty Two.
- 33Chapter Thirty Three.
- 34Chapter Thirty Four.
- 35Chapter Thirty Five.
- 36Chapter Thirty Six.
- 37Chapter Thirty Seven.
- 38Chapter Thirty Eight.
- 39Chapter Thirty Nine.
- 40Chapter Forty.
- 41Chapter Forty One.
- 42Chapter Forty Two.
- 43Chapter Forty Three.
- 44Chapter Forty Four.
- 45Chapter Forty Five.
- 46Chapter Forty Six.
- 47Chapter Forty Seven.
- 48Part II.
- 49Chapter Forty Eight.
- 50Chapter Forty Nine.
- 51Chapter Fifty.
- 52Chapter Fifty One.
About this edition
- Author
- Frederick Marryat
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 444 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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