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- ID
- b66
- Title
- Obadiah — a Man Who Met His Match
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 1
- Word Count
- 1200
- Publisher
- Manchester Guardian
- New Clarion
- Publication Year
- 1930
- Document Types
- Comic Fiction
- Uncollected Antemortem
- Original Manuscript (mss)
- Topics
- Marriage, Jewish reference, Tricksters
A comic sketch, in which a crafty man finds a wife with a 'patience and shrewdness that matched his own'.
Sharing the theme of the bickering couple with several other early stories (A Waddler, The Parrot), this is one of just a few pieces of caricature among Bates's works.
A manuscript is held in the collection of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, USA. (https://archives.iu.edu/catalog/InU-Li-VAD6063)
In the Manchester Guardian (February 6, 1930), New Clarion (April 1, 1933, p. 325) and the ebook edition of The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories (Bloomsbury, 2016).
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