{"product_id":"2026200007771-secondhand-letters-from-queer-street-being-some-of-the-correspondence-of-the-late-mr-john-mason","title":"Letters From Queer Street: Being Some Of The Correspondence Of The Late Mr. John Mason","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rare and charming work of early twentieth-century Australian fiction, Letters From Queer Street: Being Some Of The Correspondence Of The Late Mr. John Mason presents itself as a collection of posthumously discovered letters written by the fictional Mr. John Mason, a witty and self-deprecating everyman navigating the comic misfortunes of colonial and bush life. J. H. M. Abbott crafts the narrative with a dry, ironic humor that was characteristic of his broader literary output, illustrating the social quirks and financial scrapes of ordinary Australian life through the epistolary form. The conceit of the late correspondent lends the correspondence a gently satirical framing, allowing Abbott to comment on class, ambition, and the perpetual human condition of being financially or socially on the skids. Warm, wry, and thoroughly entertaining, the collection stands as a distinctive artifact of Australian literary humor from the Federation era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48839394492635,"sku":"2026200007771-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c6b93f0a-be24-47ad-9138-b20643542002.png?v=1780561590","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200007771-secondhand-letters-from-queer-street-being-some-of-the-correspondence-of-the-late-mr-john-mason","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}