Penguin 60s.

Odd stuff: one man in dire need of a new overcoat and another who loses his nose.

Additional copies of this book on my BookCrossing shelf: 12646276 • 13710366

Other Penguin 60s titles on my BC shelf:

The Atheist's Mass by Honore de Balzac
Bartleby by Herman Melville
Baseball: Our Game by John Thorn
Blue Rose by Peter Straub
The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Dead by James Joyce
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
A Gathering of Ghost Stories by Robertson Davies
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton
The Man with the Twisted Lip by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy
The Original Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Farmer
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Sixty Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Three Tales of Horror by Poe, Bierce, & Stevenson
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
To Build a Fire by Jack London
The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Youth by Joseph Conrad

Headed out as a RABCK: in a few months, I imagine that an overcoat will be a useful thing where this book is headed; much more so than it would be here. As for noses, we do use those. :p

Oh, and this is my O read-and-release for zbird's A to Z challenge.

Thanks so much for the book! I do love the Penguin 60s for geocache releases. I read this one a while back and found it very enjoyable - and bizarre and surreal, with "The Nose" being quite funny and "The Overcoat" a rather poignant mix of humor and pathos. "The Nose" features a barber who, to his great surprise, finds a stray nose on his breakfast table, and the story goes off into very strange paths indeed. "The Overcoat" is about a man who goes to great lengths to acquire a beautiful, well-made coat to replace his threadbare one, only to have it stolen from him - and things only get worse from there...

["The Nose" inspired a 1966 animated short film, and "The Overcoat" has a 1952 film adaptation.]

I left this book, bagged for protection, in the Dexter Asylum geocache in Providence RI at around 3 or so; hope the finder enjoys it!

*** Released as part of the 2015 Keep Them Moving release challenge. ***

*** Released as part of the 2015 Movie release challenge. ***