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The City of Beautiful Nonsense was a best-selling novel written by Ernest Temple Thurston. It became the inspiration for two films (see below for details). It was originally published by Chapman and Hall in 1909.

In Beautiful Nonsense Kris Bather ponders how different life would be with an impressive beard, offers a thorough guide on how to become the creepiest person in the office, and presents the absurdity of arachnid mating rituals. This wild and humorous collection of thirty five short stories shines a light on the mundane and the marvelous to expose the craziness just below the surface.