Charles Everett Hall's Some honeymoon! appears to be a light, comic treatment of marital beginnings, likely built around the dislocations, expectations, and social performances attached to the honeymoon as both private ritual and public ideal. The exclamatory title suggests farce or ironic reversal: a journey meant to consummate romance instead yields confusion, inconvenience, or disillusion. In literary terms, the book can be situated within popular comic fiction that delights in exposing...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Newlyweds Jack Ryder and Ruth Mont were promised a quiet countryside honeymoon—what they got instead was a charming disaster. From misplaced luggage to runaway livestock and confused hotel staff, Some Honeymoon! by Charles Everett Hall is a lighthearted romantic comedy brimming with Edwardian wit and endearing misadventure. As the couple attempts to navigate the quirks of newly married life and the peculiarities of their rural inn, each...

John Ryder, a self-made American businessman, returns from Europe expecting to resume his orderly life of deals and calculations—only to be undone by Miss Mont, a poised, independent young woman he meets aboard ship. Struck by her beauty and self-possession, he finds himself impulsive, vulnerable, and startlingly earnest, especially when he learns she is tempted by the stage and the promise of earning her own living. His blunt objections to the theater give way to a direct, practical propo...