Project Gutenberg 2024-04-07 Public domain in the USA. 138 Anonymous Anonyme Anonymous, Anonymous The adventures of a black coat : $b Containing a series of remarkable occurrences and entertaining incidents $aDublin :$bRobert Bell, $c1762. Brian Wilsden and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.) "The Adventures of a Black Coat: Containing a Series of Remarkable Occurrences" is a narrative written in the late 18th century. The story is uniquely told from the perspective of a black coat that recounts its adventures and observations while being worn by various characters in London, reflecting on societal norms and individual follies. The protagonist, the coat itself, engages in conversations with a white coat and shares its experiences with different human figures, providing commentary on issues such as virtue, vice, and the complexity of human interactions. At the start of the narrative, the black coat, worn by a man, converses with a new white coat and prepares to share its life story. It reflects on its creation during a period of mourning and its subsequent adventures in various contexts, including theatrical and social settings. The coat narrates episodes involving a footman aspiring to act on stage, an encounter with a merchant, and several misadventures at theatres and auctions. Each tale highlights social pretensions and the often misguided pursuits of its human counterparts, using humor and wit to explore themes of deception, ambition, and the search for status in society. This opening sets the stage for a rich exploration of the interactions between people and the societal duties they fulfill, as observed through the lens of an inanimate but perceptive protagonist. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20230826092731author 1762 IE Reading ease score: 40.2 (College-level). Difficult to read. en London (England) -- Fiction Coats -- Fiction PR Text Category: Humour Category: Novels Category: British Literature 163402 2025-06-29T05:48:24.309510 text/html 138174 2024-04-07T09:26:36 text/html 351997 2025-06-29T05:48:27.931470 application/epub+zip 352342 2025-06-29T05:48:25.438506 application/epub+zip 166981 2025-06-29T05:48:24.750515 application/epub+zip 511746 2025-06-29T05:48:29.899456 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 493246 2025-06-29T05:48:27.436537 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 141994 2025-06-29T05:48:24.047499 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 122003 2024-04-07T09:26:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16449 2025-06-29T05:48:30.027460 application/rdf+xml 15412 2025-06-29T05:48:24.928488 image/jpeg 2887 2025-06-29T05:48:24.838494 image/jpeg 380169 2025-06-29T05:48:24.337487 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Unknown en.wikipedia