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Will Cuppy, American Satirist

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786469617
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Will Cuppy, American Satirist written by Wes D. Gehring and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with such fast company: Will Cuppy (1884-1949). This factual funnyman's metier is dark comedy that flirts with nihilism. His agenda is baldly stated in such classic Cuppy book titles as How to Be a Hermit (1929), How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931), and The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950). This biography doubles as a critical study of a satirist whose shish-kebabing of humanity was often done through the veiled anthropomorphic use of animals. For a biographer, Will Cuppy represents a treasure trove of possibilities. He was a great humorist, and most of his best work is still in print, but until now he has never been the subject of a book-length study. His mesmerizingly complex and eccentric private life almost trumps the comic accomplishments of his public persona.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : MetroBooks (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781586637330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody written by Will Cuppy and published by MetroBooks (NY). This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decline and fall of Practically Everybody is the synthesis of Will Cuppy's wry and friendly attitude toward birds, reptiles, fish, and mammals -- especially mammals, for this book is about people. Here they are, the famous and infamous of everyday history, from Cheops to Miles Standish.

How to Become Extinct

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226128269
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book How to Become Extinct written by Will Cuppy and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous essays poke fun at the natural world, extinct animals, pet snakes, and the noises of fish

How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774647125
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House written by Will Cuppy and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2024-03-26T00:00:00Z with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of funny classics like “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes” and “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody.” Here in “How to Be a Hermit” are humorous essays and stories discussing house cleaning, cooking, sardines, spinach, clams, lettuce, cabbage, beans, coffee, budgets, entertaining, and the holidays. Will Cuppy (1884-1949) wrote extensively on his life as a hermit, the natural world, and just about anything else that proved the world was out to get him. Think of this book like a humorous memoir by a financially-challenged book reviewer living alone in a shack on an island off Long Island, New York, in the 1920s. “How to be a Hermit” first published in 1929, now public domain, was his first bestseller. Hilarious stuff!

How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567926355
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes written by Will Cuppy and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2018 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dave Barry Slept Here

Author : Dave Barry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307758710
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Dave Barry Slept Here written by Dave Barry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What caused the American Revolution? This is indeed a rhetorical question that for many years historians have begun chapters with. As well they should. For the American Revolution is without a doubt the single most important historical event to occur in this nation except of course for Super Bowl III (Jets 16. Colts 7. This historian won $35).” So goes the skewed sensibility, the muddied mind, the bent pen of one of America's funniest writers, Dave Barry. This time his subject is U.S. history, the way it's never been told before. Every single momentous event and crucial moment is covered, including . . . • The Birthing Contractions of a Nation • Kicking Some British Butt • Barging Westward • The Forging of a Large, Wasteful Bureaucracy • Deep Economic Doo-doo • The Fifties: Peace, Prosperity, Brain Death . . . and right up through the scintillating Reagan-Bush years, during which, Mr. Barry notes, America is steadfastly Napping Toward Glory. If you love to laugh, if you love your country, if you are unaware that “the Sixth Amendment states that if you are accused of a crime, you have a right to a trial before a jury of people too stupid to get out of jury duty,” Dave Barry Slept Here is the book you've been waiting for since 1776. Or at least since Super Bowl III. Praise for Dave Barry Slept Here “A dazzling performance . . . Barry is brilliant.”—The Washington Post Book World “[Dave] Barry turns his formidable wit to the subject of American history, with a result reminiscent of the Reduced Shakespeare Company: The better you know the original, the funnier it gets.”—Los Angeles Times “I fear that Mr. Barry's dream of making millions of dollars through mass sales of his book to a captive audience of innocent schoolchildren will not be realized, and he will have to be content with making readers laugh a lot, as this one did.”—The New York Times Book Review

Is Sex Necessary?

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060733144
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Is Sex Necessary? written by James Thurber and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of prose published by either James Thurber or E. B. White, Is Sex Necessary? combines the humor and genius of both authors to examine those great mysteries of life -- romance, love, and marriage. A masterpiece of drollery, this 75th Anniversary Edition stands the test of time with its sidesplitting spoof of men, women, and psychologists; more than fifty funny illustrations by Thurber; and a new foreword by John Updike.

Wolf

Author : James L. Haley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 046502503X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Wolf written by James L. Haley and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack London--adventurer, social reformer, and the most popular American writer of his generation

The Night Life of the Gods

Author : Thorne Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Night Life of the Gods written by Thorne Smith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Night Life of the Gods" by Thorne Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

3D Sweeties

Author : Julian Glander
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683961803
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book 3D Sweeties written by Julian Glander and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a digitally drawn, three-dimensional universe, characters grapple with interior decorating woes, amorous microbiology, and where to find the absolute most aspirational succulents. Readers will fall in love with “America’s favorite mug,” Cuppy; hear the familial bickering of sentient purple slime molds; and encounter Sarah Something and her musings about gaming culture and conceptual art.

Mein Rant

Author : R. F. Patterson
Publisher : Waverley Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781849340021
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Mein Rant written by R. F. Patterson and published by Waverley Books Limited. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of German propaganda was sinister, especially in the portrayal of Jewish citizens. American propaganda was cautionary and dark. British propaganda, on the other hand, was that the righteous should prevail and that those in the wrong - be they errant schoolboys, bullies, or robbers, or even wartime leaders, should always fail. Rubbishing the enemy, assassinating nasty characters with humorous methods, was a technique people learned from comics. Britain was expert in this area. So enter Heath Robinson, and R F Paterson's Mein Rant, which we reproduce in this book, with a new introduction by leading comic archivist, Morris Heggie. Mein Rant is a clever and funny satire of Hitler's Mein Kampf, illustrated by Heath Robinson. Today, and since World War One, Heath Robinson's name has been used to describe absurdly complicated inventions that achieved very simple results. Here his work is used to great impact. Mein Kampf ('My Struggle'), Hitler's autobiography, was published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926 which Hitler wrote in Landsberg Prison, and R F Paterson said of it: Mein Kampf had neither rhyme nor reason, while my abridgement undoubtedly has rhyme. 'A conversion of Hitler's Mein Kampf to a delightful and pungent verse-satire. The result is an absolute triumph of the Comic Muse over intractable, almost hopeless material'.

Red Threads

Author : Rex Stout
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Threads written by Rex Stout and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Be a Hermit, Or a Batchelor Keeps House

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : Oxford City Press
ISBN 13 : 9781781391471
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Hermit, Or a Batchelor Keeps House written by Will Cuppy and published by Oxford City Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous look at a hermit's housekeeping on Jones Island, off of Long Island, New York. Cuppy is one of the America's early 20th Century's most loved comic author.

It All Started with Columbus

Author : Richard Armour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book It All Started with Columbus written by Richard Armour and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How To Attract The Wombat

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567925758
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book How To Attract The Wombat written by Will Cuppy and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is one of Will Cuppy's three classic “How-To’s,” considering notable birds and animals whose habits (and often existence) seem to have disturbed Cuppy (“Birds Who Can’t Even Fly,” “Optional Insects,” “Octopuses and Those Things”), as well as more mundane creatures like the frog, the gnat, and the moa, who have no visible vices but whose virtues are truly awful. Spanning the breadth of the animal kingdom, Cuppy neatly classes his observations for easy reference: Problem Mammals, Pleasures of Pond Life, Birds Who Can’t Sing and Know It. Included with 50 shorter pieces are longer meditations like ‘The Poet and the Nautilus,” “Swan-upping, Indeed!” and “How to Swat a Fly,” which codifies the essentials of this simple activity in ten hilarious principles. All this, plus over 100 delightful Nofziger drawings! But the seat of honor is, of course, occupied by the Wombat, the nocturnal star of three essays. Whether asleep in Rossetti’s silver epergne or tunneling under the lawn, the wombat never fails to fascinate Cuppy, clearly supplying his alter ego for the animal kingdom.

Happy Cruelty Day!

Author : Bob Powers
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466854189
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Happy Cruelty Day! written by Bob Powers and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For everyone looking to find a little extra magic in a life with little to celebrate, Happy Cruelty Day! is here. Beginning on January 1, this book features 365 new holidays, each accompanied by a strange, dark and humorous short story explaining the day you woke up in and how to celebrate it. These 365 daily doses of delight, perversion, and nonsense include "Hire Someone Attractive To Pretend To Love You Day," "Hang on to Your Wide-Eyed Innocence Day," "Sit in Abject Terror Day," and, of course, "Cruelty Day." Far more than just a humor book, Happy Cruelty Day! is like a daily instructional manual written by a psychopath. On one page, the book has you joining a community crime watch group in an effort to make friends (it won't work). Flip the page, and you'll find the details of your attempt to rescue your husband from a POW camp (you'll fail). Flip it again, and Happy Cruelty Day! will have important insight into how best to befriend a runaway teen (offer her some soup). These holidays celebrate everything from that pivotal point in your life when everything changes, to the day you're not going to do anything but sit on the edge of your bed and get very drunk. When people realize they've fallen in love, or when they realize their love was just a lie. And of course, when love of whatever incarnation brings an index finger to clench tight around the trigger of a gun. Raw, ridiculous, and laugh-out-loud funny, this is a sharp-edged satire on the subtleties, shallowness, and stupidity of daily life.

The Puppet Show Of Memory

Author : Maurice Baring
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 0755151127
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Puppet Show Of Memory written by Maurice Baring and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was into the famous Baring family of merchant bankers that Maurice Baring was born in 1874, the seventh of eight children. A man of immense subtlety and style, Baring absorbed every drop of culture his fortunate background gave him; in combination with his many natural talents and prolific writing this assured him a place in literary history.