A Pickle for the Knowing Ones — Narrated Edition

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In the second edition, Dexter responded to complaints about the book’s lack of punctuation by adding an extra page of 11 lines of punctuation marks with the instruction that printers and readers could insert them wherever needed—or, in his words, “thay may peper and solt it a At age 50, Dexter authored the book A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, in which he complained about politicians, the clergy, and his wife. The book contains 8,847 words and 33,864 letters, but without any punctuation and with unorthodox spelling and capitalization. The first edition was self-published in Salem, Massachusetts in 1802. Dexter initially distributed his book for free, but it became popular and was reprinted eight times. The second edition was printed in Newburyport in 1805.

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