Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "e;I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers everywhere are interested in the home life of men who have made themselves factors in art, science, letters, and history, and to these people I was commissioned to go."e; (Goodreads)
