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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
- 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.
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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