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The best of modern humor
Item details
- ISBN: 0394515315
- ISBN: 9780394515311
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Physical Description:
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xix, 542 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1983.
Contents / Notes
| Formatted Contents Note: | Gertrude the governess, or Simple seventeen / Stephen Leacock -- King Lear's daughter / Maurice Baring -- Recollections of notable cops / H.L. Mencken -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- Ukridge's accident syndicate / P.G. Wodehouse -- The busher's honeymoon (excerpt from You know me Al) / Ring Lardner -- Correspondence with David Wallace / Marianne Moore -- Opera synopses / Robert Benchley -- If men played cards as women do / George S. Kaufman -- Letters to Warner Brothers and Gummo Marx / Groucho Marx -- The cliché expert testifies on love / Frank Sullivan -- The intrusions of Captain Foulenough / J.B. Morton (Beachcomber) -- The breaking up of the Winships / James Thurber -- Across the street and into the grill / E.B. White -- Time ... fortune ... life ... Luce / Wolcott Gibbs -- excerpt from Cold Comfort Farm / Stella Gibbons -- Winner takes all / Evelyn Waugh -- "Nothing but a little pissant" (excerpt from The Earl of Louisiana) / A.J. Liebling -- Farewell, my lovely appetizer / S.J. Perelman -- Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N, the comparative, and the superlative (excerpt from The education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N) / Leo Rosten -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- Requiem for a noun, or Intruder in the dusk / Peter de Vries -- Keats and Chapman / Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen) -- The chaste Clarissa / John Cheever -- The Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowerese / Oliver Jensen -- excerpt from To Jerusalem and back / Saul Bellow -- Emigration (excerpt from Daughters and Rebels) / Jessica Mitford -- Another goddam Englishman (excerpt from One fat Englishman) / Kingsley Amis -- Report on the Barnhouse effect / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Gold's stepmother (excerpt from Good as gold) / Joseph Heller -- excerpt from Clinging to the wreckage / John Mortimer -- Toujours Tristesse / Jean Kerr -- A day's work / Truman Capote -- I am Mike Hammer / Terry Southern -- Chef Reinhart (excerpt from Reinhart's women) / Thomas Berger -- Bomb math / Russell Baker -- Saving paper / Art Buchwald -- Just plain folks / Kenneth Tynan -- YMA dream / Thomas Meehan -- Bernie Perk (excerpt from The Dick Gibson Show) / Stanley Elkin -- The lonely guy's apartment / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Four hacks / Wilfrid Sheed -- Game / Donald Barthelme -- The mechanical genius / V.S. Naipaul -- The mid-Atlantic man / Tom Wolfe -- Whacking off (excerpt from Portnoy's complaint) / Philip roth -- Dinner at Binny's (excerpt from Injury time) / Beryl Bainbridge -- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- Popular Workbench / Bruce McCall -- Dinner at the de la Rentas' / Calvin Trillin -- How to be a Jewish mother / Dan Greenburg -- Hip wedding on Mount Tam (excerpt from The serial) / Cyra McFadden -- Long ago and far away / Alan Coren -- The analytic napkin / Marshall Brickman -- Mrs. Proby gets hers (excerpt from Three Wogs) / Alexander Theroux -- A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron -- The oranging of America / Max Apple -- Trash no more / Roy Blount, Jr. -- My Mao / Veronica Geng -- Shy rights: Why not pretty soon? / Garrison Keillor -- The commune (excerpt from Kinflicks) / Lisa Alther -- America's cup '83: The sherpa's challenge / Lynn Caraganis -- Notes on "Trick" / Fran Lebowitz -- Dating your mom / Ian Frazier. |
| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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