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S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346)

Author : S. J. Perelman
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598536931
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346) written by S. J. Perelman and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist. S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers and Monkey Business and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on Around the World in Eighty Days, but he remains best known for his many sketches and essays penned for The New Yorker during its golden age of humor. In these short comic pieces--Perelman called them feuilletons--his penchant for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, self-deprecation, and plain zaniness are on full display. The New York Times once noted his ability in these magazine pieces "to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar." Author and New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik has selected the very best of them, including Perelman's parodies of books and films, his biting social satire, autobiographical pieces, and a selection from the celebrated Cloudland Revisited series, in which Perelman reminisces nostalgically about books and movies encountered in youth before describing in his inimitable hyperkinetic style the rude shock of revisiting them as an adult. Also included in this volume are the acclaimed play The Beauty Part (1963) from Perelman's Broadway career; profiles of the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Parker, and his brother-in-law Nathanael West; and a selection of letters written to correspondents such as Groucho Marx and Paul Theroux.

Most of the Most of S.J. Perelman

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780679640370
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Most of the Most of S.J. Perelman written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of works by one of America's most popular humorists offers his unique perspective on books, movies, New York socialites, the newspaper business, country life, travel, Hollywood, the publishing industry, and himself.

Conversations with S.J. Perelman

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878057900
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with S.J. Perelman written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his seemingly effortless contributions to the world of humor and to an avid, exhilarated readership flourishing over six decades the New York Times Book Review declared him a national treasure.

Crazy Like a Fox

Author : S. J. Perelman
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598537792
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Like a Fox written by S. J. Perelman and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beloved classic returns: S. J. Perelman's own selection of the very best of his hilarious stories and sketches Pulitzer Prize–winning author Joshua Cohen (The Netanyahus) reintroduces America's zaniest humorist to a new generation of readers When asked about himself the writer Sidney Joseph Perelman once quipped, "before they made him, they broke the mold." Nowhere is S. J. Perelman's one-of-a-kind, madcap sensibility—his gift for wordplay, witticism, spoofery, and sheer nonsense—on better display than in his classic collection Crazy Like a Fox, here restored to print for the first time in decades. In a playful, loving tribute to the funny man, novelist Joshua Cohen—also an erudite wordsmith and punster—introduces Perelman’s sui generis comic pieces to a new generation of readers, certain to fall in love with the writer whom The New York Times once noted for his ability “to transform the common cliché or figure of speech into an exploding cigar.” Included here are such beloved classics as: the Joycean virtuoso performance “Scenario” “A Farewell to Omsk,” Perelman's hilarious homage to Dostoevsky and “Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer," his side-splitting send-up of the hardboiled detective fiction of Raymond Chandler Here is Perelman's own selection of the very best of his inimitable humor, restored to print for the first time in decades.

The Most of S.J. Perelman

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Most of S.J. Perelman written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World of S.J. Perelman

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853755941
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The World of S.J. Perelman written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entering the warped world of SJ Perelman - the Marx brothers' greatest scriptwriter, amongst other things - is a unique comic experience. A satirist and parodist, his celebrated sketches lampoon the screaming absurdities of modern life and bring succour to that most persecuted minority of all: the embattled sane. The undoubted star of these sketches is Perelman's own put-upon fictional persona: all he craves is a little peace and quiet, yet he is continually pushed closer to the edge by those sent to try him. Written mainly for the New Yorker magazine, the sketches in this volume are a brand new selection of some of his finest pieces, many of which have been unavailable for decades. This collection covers every decade in which he wrote from the '30s to the '70s. His subversive wit seems as fresh today as it did when it first appeared and to many he is quite simply the most original and funniest humorist of the twentieth century.

Best of S. J. Perelman

Author : S. J. Perelman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974296231
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Best of S. J. Perelman written by S. J. Perelman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any consideration of S. J. Perelman-and S. J. Perelman certainly deserves the same consideration one accords old ladies on street cars, babies traveling unescorted on planes, and the feeble-minded generally-it is important to remember the crushing, the well-nigh intolerable odds under which the man has struggled to produce what may well be, in the verdict of history, the most picayune prose ever produced in America. Denied every advantage, beset and plagued by ill fortune and a disposition so crabbed as to make Alexander Pope and Dr. Johnson seem sunny by contrast, he has nevertheless managed to belt out a series of books each less distinguished than its predecessor, each a milestone of bombast, conceit, pedantry, and strutting pomposity. In his pages proliferate all the weird grammatical flora tabulated by H. W. Fowler in his Modem English Usage-the Elegant Variation, the Facetious Zeugma, the Cast-iron Idiom, the Battered Ornament, the BowerVBird Phrase, the Sturdy Indefensible, the Side-Slip, and the Unequal Yokefellow. His work is a museum of mediocrity, a monument to the truly banal. What Flaubert did to the French bourgeois in Bouvard and Pecuchet, what Pizarro did to the Incas, what Jack Dempsey did to Paolino Uzcudun, S. J. Perelman has done to American belles-lettres.

Don't Tread on Me

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140094824
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Don't Tread on Me written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the period from the late '20s to his death in 1979, these letters reveal a man with the skill to transform his multifarious resentments, jealousies, and insecurities into high verbal art. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

S.J. Perelman

Author : Dorothy Herrmann
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S.J. Perelman written by Dorothy Herrmann and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1987 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Road to Miltown

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Miltown written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of the author's humorous short pieces that appeared over the years in The New Yorker magazine.

The Beauty Part

Author : S J (Sidney Joseph) 1904- Perelman
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013936173
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty Part written by S J (Sidney Joseph) 1904- Perelman and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Westward Ha! Around The World In 80 Cliches

Author : S.j. Perelman
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306802294
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Westward Ha! Around The World In 80 Cliches written by S.j. Perelman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1984-08-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acres and Pains

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580800167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Acres and Pains written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perelman's hilarious testament to the joys of owning country property, as he transforms from city lazybones to country squire at the family farm, Rising Gorge. Line drawings.

The Rising Gorge

Author : S. J. Perelman
Publisher : Globe Pequot
ISBN 13 : 9781585741724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Rising Gorge written by S. J. Perelman and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 36 stories that comprise "The Rising Gorge", culled from such magazines as "The New Yorker, Holiday" and "Redbook", represent the writings of S.J. Perelman during the 1940s and 1950s, regarded by many fans and critics as the author's most productive, noteworthy period.

The Ill-tempered Clavichord

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Ill-tempered Clavichord written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

That Old Gang O' Mine

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Old Gang O' Mine written by Sidney Joseph Perelman and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Laugh

Author : S. J. Perelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585741526
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Last Laugh written by S. J. Perelman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Last Laugh", as its name suggests, is the last of Perelman's 20 books and shows the humorist at his very best. Includes 17 pieces never before collected and the opening chapters of the author's uncompleted autobiography.