The First Book of Eve

By Fowl

“The First Book of Eve” is a book filled with suspense, romance, and expectations. A book centered on a woman who walks out of a 40-year-old marriage in search of freedom and happiness. Did she find the happiness she was searching for? Was letting go of something so strong and yet fragile worth it? A book that revolves around finding true happiness in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sharp Ink
• Release date: Feb 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9788028235536

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Fowl

The First Book of Eve

Sharp Ink Publishing

2022

Contact: [e-mail]

ISBN 978-80-282-3553-6

Table of Contents

PREFACE.

—The Adventures of Eve

Eve as a Policeman and Some War-time Cooks.

The Dramatic Story of Eve’s Career as a Hospital Nurse.

Eve Stays on the East Coast with Uncle Fred—

—And Enjoys her First Experience of the Zeps.

Eve Buys a Motor Car.

Just a Few Odds and Ends.

The Zeps Threaten Again.

Eve Mobilises her Sisters.

Eve’s Adventure with the Gallant Submarine.

Eve Goes into the City and Relieves a Man for Active Service.

Eve has Trouble with her Bills—but Triumphs.

Eve Outwits Artful Adam.

Eve Improves upon the Very Incomplete Interning Arrangements of the Government.

And Now a Little Racing.

Eve Becomes a Policewoman.

Uncle Fred is Again Victimised.

Eve Works and Plays.

Eve and her Lonely Soldier.

Eve Goes into the Beauty Business.

Christmas at Home and Amusing.

Eve and the New Furs.

Some Why’s and Wherefores.

A Matrimonial Puzzle— —and Eve as a Chaperone.

—And Yet More Why’s.

Eve at a Dinner Party—

—and With Our Gallant Airmen.

Eve Goes on to a Farm—

—To Help the Labour-denuded Farmer.

Eve Appears in Tina—

—At the Adelphi Theatre.

The Death of Tou-Tou.

War-time Dances.

Au Revoir.

PREFACE.

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By Richard King.

It is not often that an artist evolves a new type—more especially a new comic type. But this is the proud achievement of the artist whose work adorns this little book. Eve has now become a clearly recognised figure of modern life, as clearly recognised as are the figures of George Belcher, Dana Gibson, and Bateman, and that very small band of clever artists who have characteristics peculiar to themselves.

Few artists, however, have more quickly sprung into world-wide popularity than Eve. How great this popularity is may be judged by the numerous imitators which, while they copy many of Eve’s mannerisms, lose all that humour and spirit which make of Eve’s art such a fascinating and irresistible thing. For Eve possesses a gift which cannot be imitated, no matter how clever the artist who imitates her may be. Each person’s sense of humour—or lack of it—belongs to them alone. And it is Eve’s humour which make her delightful drawings so appealing. She has that sense of the absurd which is one of the rarest senses in all black-and-white art. And yet, while her irresistible humour makes one laugh, while her drawings fascinate us by their quaintness, she is never so far