Anthologies

Humor From Harper's

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Information

• Edited by John Fischer and Lucy Donaldson
• Contains:
  • "Madame Rosette"

Description

"This is a book to be read for sheer pleasure: a collection of the witty, the informal, and the entertaining, selected from the pages of Harper's Magazine. The single characteristic shared by the wide variety of stories and articles is that each is fresh, funny, and enormously readable. The selections range in time from Mark Twain to Jean Kerr, and cover such diverse subjects as Hedda Hopper's TV spectacular, a baby seal that doesn't know how to swim, and the little kingdom of Lundy off the British coast. Here is the immortal Father Day of Life With Father, and the exuberant H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N; Gypsy Rose Lee's redoubtable mother, and Gerald Durrell's friend the bibulous Fon of Bafut. Here is Russell Lynes on snobs, and James Thurber on children; C. Northcote Parkinson's classical work on the decline and fall of corporations, and A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s unclassical encounters with a cow. Here are articles by E. B. White, Bernard DeVoto, Ralph McGill, and Shirley Jackson, verse by Ogden Nash and Robert Graves, stories by Marcel Syme, Gretchen Finletter, and Roald Dahl. And there is much more. This anthology brings you old favorites and new delights to be read, shared, and read again."

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