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Contains A Collection Of American And English Humor From Such Outstanding Contributors As Woody Allen, Damon Runyon, Trumon Capote, Groucho Marx, Art Buchwald, Roy Blount, Jr., Fran Liebowitz, Philip Roth, And Eudora Welty. 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 -- Farewe
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Mordecai Richler
- Publisher
- New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394515311
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor
- Rating
- 3.36 / 5 (50 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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