Amanda McKittrick Ros

Irene Iddesleigh Amanda McKittrick Ros

"One of the greatest unintentionally humorous novels of all time." - Mark Twain, "A thing that happens once in a million years. The book of the century." - Barry Pain, "Uniquely dreadful." - The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, "For Amanda, eyes are 'piercing orbs', legs are 'bony supports', people do not blush, they are 'touched by the hot hand of bewilderment.'" - Nick Page, "In Search of the World's Worst Writers", "Amanda is the most perfect instrument for measuring the sense of humour. Alert and quick witted people accept her at once: those she leaves entirely unmoved are invariably dull and unimaginative." - Jack Loudan, "Ros' prose amounts to a sort of accidental surrealism. There is an intention toward metaphor-a lunge in the general direction of the literary-but an obvious misunderstanding of how such things work (and often, for that matter, how syntax works)." - Mark O'Connell, "Epic Fail". The worst novel ever written! Anna Margaret Ross (1860 - 1939), who used the pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was an Irish teacher, novelist, and poet. She was the Florence Foster Jenkins of literature-she wrote some of the worst novels ever written, with purple prose that is circumlocutory to the point of incomprehensibility. Her husband financed the publication of "Irene Iddesleigh" in 1897 as a gift to Ros on their tenth wedding anniversary. This book is terrible. You have been warned!