
The Twits Chronicles, Anthology #1: Books 1-3 Plus 2 Unpublished Short Stories
Author: Robbins, Tom AlanNumber Of Pages: 365Details: The Twits Chronicles series follows the adventures of Cyril Chippington-Smythe and his mechanical valet, Bentley, as they navigate a dystopian world in search of love and meaning. Anthology #1 contains the full text of: Twits in Love, Twits in Peril and Twits Abroad plus two previously unpublished short stories. "The best satire is hilarious and engaging even to one who is not familiar with the antecedent. I have never read Wodehouse, whose work is elegantly and brilliantly roasted here by Mr. Robbins, but I don’t need to. Twits is comic genius in its own right. I believe it is brilliant enough to belong to that rare category of literature, like Don Quixote, in which the satire is better known than the genre on which it is based. It would be a disservice, in fact, to limit Twits to the category of satire. It is humor fiction entirely in its own shelf, “steampunk” notwithstanding. Mr. Robbins' world inhabits the past, present and f