Will Cuppy American Satirist

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601917
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( 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 2013-10-11 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.

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786469617
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( 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 2013-10-30 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.

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : MetroBooks (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781586637330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( 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.

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226128269
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( 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

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567926355
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( 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:

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Be a Hermit written by Will Cuppy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Be a Hermit by American humorist Will Cuppy is a subjective and partly fictional account of Will's adventures as a hermit on Jones's Island in Wisconsin. Excerpt: "All was excitement that June morning among the clams of Jones's Island (pronounced, by your leave, in two good healthy syllables, thus: Jone'-sez). Softies by the bushel dug themselves deeper into the shoreward mud, and whimpering little quahogs out in their watery beds clung closer to their mothers as they heard the dread news relayed by their kinsfolk of Seaman's Neck, Black Banks Channel, Johnson's Flats, and High Hill Crick."

Author : Dave Barry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307758710
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( 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

Author : Thorne Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( 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.

Author : James L. Haley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 046502503X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( 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

Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060733144
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( 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.