A Pickle for the Knowing Ones

Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert themselves.

At a glance A one-of-a-kind curiosity from an American original. Every so often a book comes along that no editor could have produced, and this is the… What it's about Written by Timothy Dexter, a wealthy and self-mythologizing New England… It is best known for its wildly inventive spelling and its near-total absence of…

Written by Timothy Dexter, a wealthy and self-mythologizing New England businessman, this famously idiosyncratic little book records his opinions, grievances, and reflections in prose that follows no conventional…