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Bambi

Marjorie Benton Cooke

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 331 pages

A 1914 novel about Francesca “Bambi” Parkhurst, a spirited young woman in New York, and her marriage to the aspiring writer Jarvis Jocelyn. It mixes romance and comedy with the challenges of creative ambition, as Bambi’s energy and wit shape her own life and her husband’s career. A warm, lively portrait of a modern marriage worth listening to.

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Opening of the book

BAMBI
by Marjorie Benton Cooke
Illustrated by Mary Greene
Blumenschein
Originally Published in 1914
DEDICATION
TO BAMBI
With thanks to her for being Herself!

M.B.C.

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She saw Jarvis before the curtain, making a first-night speech.

Bambi fluttered the joy-bringing letter above her head and circled the breakfast-room in a whirl of happiness.

"Good evening, Mrs. New York, and all you people out there! We're here, Jarvis and I."

"Well, believe me, that high-brow stuff is on the

toboggan."

"Tell your husband to put you in a play, and I'll put it on."

"Much obliged, I'll tell him. Good morning."

Her tale had the place of honour and was illustrated by

James Montgomery Flagg, the supreme desire of every young writer.

"Softlings! Poor softlings!" Jarvis muttered, Bambi's words coming back to him.

"I have got to do something violent, Ardelia. I am going to jerk the stems off of berries, chop the pits out of cherries, and skin peaches."

He taught himself to abandon his old introspective habits during these days on the box.

BAMBI

I

"Professor James Parkhurst, I consider you a colossal failure as an educator," said Francesca, his daughter, known to friend and family as Bambina, or Bambi for short.

Professor Parkhurst lifted a startled face from his newspaper and surveyed his only child across the breakfast table.

"My dear, what causes this sweeping assertion of my incompetence?"

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