Download or read book The Land of Afternoon: A Satire written by Gilbert Knox and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land of Afternoon is a satire about upper and middle-class Canadian society. Anybody would enjoy the story of Marjorie and her everyday life among the women of Ottawa. Marjorie goes shopping at a local Ottawa market and gets a drawer repaired. Excerpt: No one considered Marjorie at all. Each was engrossed in her part, playing a little scene in the successful Comédie Malice which has been running without a break since June 8th, 1866, in the Capital.