Eliza

Eliza

By Barry Pain
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A pompous and pooterish city clerk with social pretensions relates anecdotes of suburban life in Edwardian England, as he and his patient and long-suffering wife, Eliza, deal with various crises and contretemps-including the vexed question of visiting cards; a malfunctioning music player; the mistreatment of the narrator's hat; a mushroom (or toadstool) in the front garden; and the ongoing struggle to balance the household accounts …