The Man Who Lived in a Shoe

Published in 1922 The Man Who Lived in a Shoe is a classic fiction by Henry James Forman, American author popularly known for his 1933 book Our Movie Made Children. Excerpt from The Man Who Lived in a Shoe “Time out of mind we have been friends, Gertrude and I, as our mothers had been before us. She, the highly modern spinster and I, such as I am, have been linked for years by an engagement which is not an engagement in the old sense at all. It is a sort of entente cordiale. An engagement in the conventional meaning of the word would be as abhorrent to Gertrude as the old-fashioned marriage. As soon would she think of "being given in marriage" with bell, book and orange blossoms as of calling herself "Mrs. Randolph Byrd"—or anything but Miss Bayard.