New Releases by Thorne Smith

A master of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction, Thorne Smith is best known today as the creator of the Topper novels. His works of comic fantasy involve sexual encounters, much drinking, ghosts and hilarious misadventures. This comprehensive eBook presents Smith’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Smith’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the novels and short stories, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes the rare children’s book ‘Lazy Bear Lane’ * Smith’s rare poetry * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genresPlease note: the posthumous novel ‘The Passionate Witch’ was completed by Norman H. Matson and so cannot appear due to copyright restrictions.CONTENTS:The Novels Topper (1926) Dream’s End (1927) The Stray Lamb (1929) Did She Fall? (1930) The Night Life of the Gods (1931) Turnabout (1931) Topper Takes a Trip (1932) The Bishop’s Jaegers (1932) Rain in the Doorway (1933) Skin and Bones (1933) The Glorious Pool (1934)The Shorter Fiction Biltmore Oswald (1918) Out O’ Luck (1919) Birthday Present (1934) Yonder’s Henry! (1934)The Children’s Book Lazy Bear Lane (1931)The Poetry Haunts and Bypaths (1919)Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Ker are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover they''ve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being...

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Biltmore Oswald" (The Diary of a Hapless Recruit) by Thorne Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Night Life of the Gods" by Thorne Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Topper Takes a Trip" by Thorne Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Did She Fall?" by Thorne Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Peter Duane Van Dyck, a 34 year old coffee magnate, Bishop Waller and four other passengers fogbound on the Staten Island Ferry leave their stranded vessel seeking help and find themselves shipwrecked in a nudist colony. The man leading the nudist colony, named Jones, carries a duck under his arm that goes by the name of Havelock Ellis. Jones and the group welcome the stranded strangers ashore but request that they adhere to the colony''s policy concerning the restricted use of clothing. Those that comply have a jolly time living it up with the rest of the ribald group. Those that don''t (Bishop Waller) become the subject of ridicule. As with almost all Thorne Smith novels, the fun ensues when the characters let down their hair (take off their clothes) and thumb their noses at the rules and regulations set up by society.

Looking to spice up your bedtime reading material? Rain in the Doorway, a raucous, raunchy romp from renowned writer Thorne Smith, is just the ticket. The story follows the boozy shenanigans of Hector Owen.

"The Glorious Pool" by Thorne Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Thorne Smith''s rapid-fire dialogue, brilliant sense of the absurd, and literary aplomb put him in the same category as the beloved P. G. Wodehouse. The Night Life of the Gods, the madcap story of a scientist who instigates a nocturnal spree with the Greek gods, is arguably his most sparkling comedic achievement.

Sally Willows envied her adman husband his glamorous work; Tim Willows felt Sally lived in ease and luxury while he was sweating to pay the bills. So an ill-tempered minor god, tired of their bickering, worked a modest miracle... ...and Sally Willows, no occupying her husband''s body, experienced the full horrors of the Nationwide Advertising Agency, while Tim, now outwardly Sally, dealt with the amourous advances of a local Lothario. It was a toss-up whether Sally/Tim''s well-earned dismissal or Tim/Sally''s bizarre attempt at murder was more spectacular - but both seemed insignificant when Tim found he was pregnant!

"Peter Duane Van Dyck, a 34 year old coffee magnate, Bishop Waller and four other passengers fogbound on the Staten Island Ferry leave their stranded vessel seeking help and find themselves shipwrecked in a nudist colony. The man leading the nudist colony, named Jones, carries a duck under his arm that goes by the name of Havelock Ellis. Jones and the group welcome the stranded strangers ashore but request that they adhere to the colony''s policy concerning the restricted use of clothing. Those that comply have a jolly time living it up with the rest of the ribald group. Those that don''t (Bishop Waller) become the subject of ridicule. As with almost all Thorne Smith novels, the fun ensues when the characters let down their hair (take off their clothes) and thumb their noses at the rules and regulations set up by society."

Mild-mannered investment banker, cuckold, and dipsomaniac T. Lawrence Lamb gains perspective on the human condition during a series of mysterious transformations into various animal forms. Lamb, his daughter Hebe, her boyfriend Melville Long, and Hebe''s friend Sandra Rush (a twentyish lingerie model who becomes Lamb''s love interest) pursue many adventures, most of which fall well outside the perimeter of law and order. Lamb has, like many Thorne Smith heroes, a shrewish (and in this case adulterous) wife who at one point tries to murder him (at the time he is a goldfish).

Turnabout is a 1940 fantasy comedy film directed by Hal Roach and starring Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis and John Hubbard. Based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Thorne Smith, the screenplay was written by Mickell Novack, Bernie Giler and John McClain with additional dialogue by Rian James. In 1979, the screenplay was adapted for the short-lived television series with the same name.

Depressed and indifferent heir of a vast coffee import fortune, Peter Van Dyke finds his life and high society engagement turn upside down when his secretary, Josephine Duval, determines that she will rescue him from his horrible fate by ruining him morally. After an amusing scandal involving a nude Peter Van Dyke, Miss Duval and an ill starred burglar in a coat closet, he finds himself cast adrift in a fog with a motley crew that includes a Bishop Waller of the Episcopal Church and a former nude model named Aspirin Liz. The enterprising party lands unceremoniously on the shores of one of New York''s sauciest nudist colonies, and thus is the liberation of the coffee importer set in motion.

Sally Willows envied her adman husband his glamorous work; Tim Willows felt Sally lived in ease and luxury while he was sweating to pay the bills. So an ill-tempered minor god, tired of their bickering, worked a modest miracle...

The Night Life of the Gods is a fiction novel by Thorne Smith.The Night Life of the Gods, the madcap story of a scientist who instigates a nocturnal spree with the Greek gods, is arguably his most sparkling comedic achievement.Author Thorne Smith puts his seemingly boundless imagination to good work in The Night Life of the Gods, a rip-roaring novel that postulates about what would happen if ancient deities were revived and allowed to run wild in the streets of Depression-era New York City. This turn of events comes about when inventor Hunter Hawk devises a method of turning people into stone statues and vice versa.

Night Life of the Gods (also known as Thorne Smith''s Night Life of the Gods) is a 1935 American fantasy film released by Universal Pictures. Based on a 1931 novel by Thorne Smith, the film was directed by Lowell Sherman and starred Alan Mowbray as a scientist who devises a ray that can turn people to stone and bring statues to life.

In ,,Night Life of the Gods", we meet Hunter Hawk, wealthy eccentric scientist in 1920s America, who, after numerous explosions, manages to invent an ,,atomic ray" that turns living beings into statues, and a second ray that restores them to their original state. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art of transforming statues into people. Together, the two are invincible, especially when they get to New York City, where there are museums full of statues of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, waiting to come back to life... Author Thorne Smith puts his seemingly boundless imagination to good work in ,,The Night Life of the Gods", a rip-roaring novel that postulates about what would happen if ancient deities were revived and allowed to run wild in the streets of Depression-era New York City.

"The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith''s best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. Cosmo Topper, the mild-mannered bank manager who was persuaded to take a walk on the wild side by the ghosts of George and Marion Kerby in Topper, finds himself reunited with his dyspeptic wife for an extended vacation on the Riviera. But he doesn''t have long to enjoy the peace and quiet before the irrepressible Kerbys materialize once again and start causing fracases, confusing the citizenry, alarming the gendarmes, getting naked, and turning every occasion into revelry or melee. Soon Marion decides that Topper as a ghost would be even more laughs than Topper in the flesh. And all she needs to arrange is one simple little murder.Born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892, educated at Dartmouth, THORNE SMITH was an early cohort of Dorothy Parker''s. He achieved literary success in 1926 with the publication of Topper and went on to publish nine novels in the next eight years. He earned a passionate following among both critics and readers before his death, at the age of forty-two, in 1934."

"Thorne Smith''s rapid-fire dialogue, brilliant sense of the absurd, and literary aplomb put him in the same category as the beloved P. G. Wodehouse. The Night Life of the Gods, the madcap story of a scientist who instigates a nocturnal spree with the Greek gods, is arguably his most sparkling comedic achievement.Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultra respectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable minefield, replete with evil-smelling clouds of vapor through which various bits of wreckage and mysteriously bubbling test tubes are occasionally visible.With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people. And when he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, setting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York, the stage is set for Thorne Smith at his most devilish and delightful."

The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith''s best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee.

Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Ker are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover they''ve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being...

Thorne Smith''s imaginative novel ,,Skin and Bones" takes the concept of suffering for one''s art to a whole new level. This classic book contains the humorous and fantastical story of Mr. Quintus Bland, the eminent photographer, whose efforts to perfect X-ray film had, one evening, the unfortunate effect of leaving Mr. Bland in the position of an X-ray film himself; in other words, him found himself no more than a walking skeleton. Bland''s flesh does not merely become invisible but intangible. Can he make a life worth living with this condition? A great read, this book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any home, where it is sure to become a family favorite.

The beloved characters--mortal and immortal--of Topper return in this uproarious romp through the south of France. One of Thorne Smith''s best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee.

J. Thorne Smith (1892-1934) was the author of "Topper / The Jovial Ghosts," "Topper Takes a Trip," "The Night Life of the Gods," "The Stray Lamb," "Turnabout," "The Glorious Pool," etc. "Topper" was published in 1926. Public Domain in countries where copyright is Life]70. Thorne Smith is a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. Topper, his best-known work, is the hilarious, ribald comedy on which the hit television show and movie (starring Cary Grant) were based. It all begins when Cosmo Topper, a law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager, decides to buy a secondhand car, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of its previous owners--the reckless, feckless, frivolous couple who met their untimely demise when the car careened into an oak tree. The ghosts, George and Marion Kerby, make it their mission to rescue Topper from the drab "summer of suburban Sundays" that is his life--and they commence a series of madcap adventures that leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight. As enchanting today as it was when first published in 1926, Topper has set the standard in American pop culture for such mischievous apparitions as those seen in ''The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, '' ''Heaven Can Wait, '' ''Beetlejuice, '' and ''Bewitched.''

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This vintage book contains Thorne Smith''s 1933 novel, "Rain in the Doorway". It is the story an adulteress''s husband who embarks on inebriated adventures with his various partners and a girl who works in a pornographic books department. Those who have read and enjoyed Smith''s work will love "Rain in the Doorway", an entertaining and risqué tale of forbidden love and compromising situations. Contents include: "Waiting", "In The Doorway", "Snatched Through", "The New Partner", "Pornography Preferred", "Satin", "Establishing A Line Of Credit", "The Burning Beard", "The Kiarians Continue", "From The Roof Top", "The Partners Are Helpful", "Satin Slings An Eel", "Mr. Owen''s Buff", "The Hour Grows Late", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.

This Thorne Smith short story originally appeared in Esquire magazine in 1934. It tells the story of a fox-hunt in Texas, with the ''Henry'' of the title being the star hound of the pack. However, the tale focuses mainly on the exploits of the drunken humans taking part in the hunt. We are republishing this work with a brand new introductory biography on Jefferies, to help place this publication in context with his other works.

Peter and Mary are old and forgotten ― that is, until Lazy Bear arrives with gentle magic, poetry, and delightful repartee. Tender and understanding, charming and humorous, children and adults alike are transported to a make believe land where anything can happen.