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Author : Robert Benchley
Publisher : Glendower Media
ISBN 13 : 9780914303022
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Athletic Benchley written by Robert Benchley and published by Glendower Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert C. Benchley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226042183
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (421 download)
Download or read book The Benchley Roundup written by Robert C. Benchley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence—on contemporaries such as E. B. White, James Thurber, and S. J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor—has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. The Benchley Roundup collects those pieces, selected by Benchley's son Nathaniel, "which seem to stand up best over the years"-a compendium of the most endearing and enduring work from one of America's funniest and most penetrating wits. "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous." —Robert Benchley
Author : Peter Benchley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Rummies written by Peter Benchley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Preston is forced to enter the Banner Clinic for alcoholics where he encounters strange copatients, an heiress disappearance, and murder.
Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250082722
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book It's All a Game written by Tristan Donovan and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible history and psychology of board games. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan reveals why board games have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.
Author : Gordon E. Ernst
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313388008
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Robert Benchley written by Gordon E. Ernst and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-05-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length annotated bibliography of the works of humorist Robert Benchley. It contains chapters on his books, essays, newspaper writings, dramatic criticism, plus a filmography and a discography. Also included is a chapter on secondary sources about his life. When humorist Robert Benchley died in 1945 at the age of 56, he left behind a large body of little-known material. Some of this material was collected into book form during and after Benchley's lifetime, but much of it remains uncollected. This annotated bibliography brings together in one volume citations to most of Benchley's collected and uncollected works. The volume contains chapters on Benchley's books, essays, newspaper writings, dramatic criticism, secondary sources about him, a filmography, and a discography. The books chapter contains all of Benchley's major books and lists the contents of each. The chapters on his essays and newspaper writings detail his work for such publications as the New Yorker, Life, Liberty, Vanity Fair, the New York Tribune, New York World, and the Chicago Tribune. The dramatic criticism chapter contains all his theater reviews, for Life and the New Yorker, with the titles of the reviewed plays and the authors for each. Entries are numbered, cross-referenced, and indexed to assist the reader.
Author : Jeanne Darst
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1594486174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Fiction Ruined My Family written by Jeanne Darst and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully paced . . . heartbreaking and hilarious."—USA Today Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir. The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family-- of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutantes and equestrians on the other-- Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And the message she internalized as a young girl was clear: While things might be a bit tight for us right now, it’s only temporary. Soon her father would sell the Great American Novel and reclaim the family’s former glory. The Darsts move from St. Louis to New York, and Jeanne’s father writes one novel, then another, which don’t find publishers. This, combined with her mother’s burgeoning alcoholism, lead to financial disaster and divorce. And as Jeanne becomes an adult, she is horrified to discover that she is not only a drinker like her mother, but a writer like her father. At first, and for years, she embraces both activities— and until she can stop putting drinking and writing ahead of everything else, it’s a questionable choice. Ultimately, Darst sets out to discover whether a person can have the writing without the ruin, whether it’s possible to be both sober and creative, ambitious and happy, a professional author and a parent. Filled with brilliantly flawed, idiosyncratic characters and punctuated by Darst’s irreverent eye for absurdity, Fiction Ruined My Family is a lovingly told, wickedly funny portrait of an unconventional life.
Author : Bridget Moynahan
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683355083
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Our Shoes, Our Selves written by Bridget Moynahan and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty remarkable women share the stories and memories behind their favorite shoes—accompanied by gorgeous photography. Cinderella wasn’t the only one whose life was changed by a pair of shoes. Ask any woman about her favorite pair and you’re sure to get an answer that goes beyond their material design. In Our Shoes, Our Selves: 40 Women, 40 Stories, 40 Pairs of Shoes, actress Bridget Moynahan and journalist Amanda Benchley ask forty accomplished women to recount the memories behind their most meaningful footwear. This collection features stories from icons like Bobbi Brown, Danica Patrick, and Misty Copeland; intrepid reporters like Christiane Amanpour and Katie Couric; and creative forces like Rupi Kaur, Maya Lin, and Gretchen Rubin. Beautifully illustrated with a portrait of each woman and her chosen shoes, the stories explore what most women already know: that what we wear can have power and significance beyond merely clothing our bodies. Our Shoes, Our Selves reveals these remarkable journeys, and the steps these inspiring women have taken to get there.
Author : Ken Voyles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614234752
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Enduring Legacy of the Detroit Athletic Club: Driving the Motor City written by Ken Voyles and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1887, the Detroit Athletic Club left an indelible stamp on the city even as it was helping that city find its place in the country at large. Always a powerhouse for individual and team amateur athletics, the DAC helped give its members the strength to serve as soldiers and compete as Olympians. They fueled the manufacturing frenzy that created the Motor City and brought home the professional sports teams that were its due. In this chronicle of the DAC's long history, readers will discover the unique world of a private club that remains one of the finest in the world, an enduring home to community leaders, amateur athletes and one of Detroit's architectural jewels.
Author : Robert C. Benchley
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331629924
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Love Conquers All (Classic Reprint) written by Robert C. Benchley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Love Conquers All Lest future generations be thrown into turmoil over my correspondence after I am gone, I want right now to clear up the mystery which has puzzled literary circles for over thirty years. I need hardly add that I refer to what is known as the benchley-whittier Correspondence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Underwear & Hosiery Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Babette Rosmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Robert Benchley: His Life and Good Times written by Babette Rosmond and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Benchley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312965730
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Peter Benchley's Creature written by Peter Benchley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marine biologist is studying strange behavior among the creatures of the sea when the body of a diver washes ashore, and all the speculation concerning a white shark is erased with the threat of a more dangerous and malevolent killer.
Author : Robert Benchley
Publisher : New York : H. Holt [c1928]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Or, David Copperfield written by Robert Benchley and published by New York : H. Holt [c1928]. This book was released on 1928 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.J. Murphy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451238990
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)
Download or read book A Friendly Game of Murder written by J.J. Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Dorothy Parker’s friends be the only ones making “enviable names” in “science, art, and parlor games”? Dorothy can play with the best of them—as she sets out to prove at a New Year’s Eve party at the Algonquin Hotel. Since the swanky soiree is happening in the penthouse suite of swashbuckling star Douglas Fairbanks, some derring-do is called for. How about a little game of “Murder”? Each partygoer draws a card to be detective, murderer, or victim. But young Broadway starlet Bibi Bibelot trumps them all when her dead body is found in the bathtub. No one knows who the killer is, but one thing is for sure—they won’t be making gin in that bathtub. When more partiers are put in peril, it becomes clear the game is indeed on, and it’s up to Dorothy, surprise guest Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the members of the Round Table to stay alive—and relatively sober—long enough to find the killer…
Author : Ian Frazier
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374709491
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days written by Ian Frazier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, the book follows the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and eight—as she tries (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life. Frazier has demonstrated an astonishing ability to operate with ease in a variety of registers: from On the Rez, an investigation into the lives of modern day Oglala Sioux written with a mix of humor, compassion, and imagination, to Dating Your Mom, a sidesplitting collection of humorous essays that imagines, among other things, how and why you might begin a romance with your mother. Here, Frazier tackles another genre with his usual grace and aplomb, as well as an extra helping of his trademark wicked wit. The Cursing Mommy's failures and weaknesses are our own—and Frazier gives them a loving, satirical spin that is uniquely his own.
Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430300302
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Funniest People in Sports and Neighborhoods written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains such anecdotes as these: 1) Bob Zuppke coached the football Illini for years. In a discussion of football rules, someone described a play and asked whether the officials had made the right call. Before answering, however, Mr. Zuppke asked, "Which team made the foul-Illinois or the other one?" 2) At a Westminster Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, a woman was selling an expensive coat made for dogs. Saying "We want her dog to look as smart as madame," the saleslady held up a pink cocktail coat made out of embroidered silk with a lining of mohair. Sportswriter Robert Lipsyte asked her, "When would a dog wear that?" The saleslady replied, "After five o'clock." 3) Shannon Martin was six years old when she won an age-12-and-under roping contest, for which she was written up in the "Roping Sports News." Because she hadn't learned to read yet, she kept saying to her father, "Come on, Dad. Read it again."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1486 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Saturday Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1956-07 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
