S J Perelman Writings Loa 346

Author : S. J. Perelman
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598536935

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

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.

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0679640371

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Most of the Most of S.J. Perelman by Sidney Joseph Perelman Pdf

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.

Author : S.j. Perelman,Al Hirschfeld
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984-08-21
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0306802295

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Westward Ha! Around The World In 80 Cliches by S.j. Perelman,Al Hirschfeld Pdf

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:300327714

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The Most of S.J. Perelman by Sidney Joseph Perelman Pdf

Author : Adam Gopnik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015058733240

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Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology by Adam Gopnik Pdf

Including stories, letters, memoirs, and journalism, "Americans in Paris" distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world."

Author : Sidney Joseph Perelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 185375594X

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The World of S.J. Perelman by Sidney Joseph Perelman Pdf

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.

Author : Mohamed E. Abd El Bagi,Maurice C. Haddad,Jean C. Tamraz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783540493549

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Imaging of Parasitic Diseases by Mohamed E. Abd El Bagi,Maurice C. Haddad,Jean C. Tamraz Pdf

With parasitic diseases increasing worldwide it’s vitally important that radiologists in particular stay up to date with developments. In this brilliantly useful volume, the authors cover the imaging findings for parasitic diseases that can affect the human body using modern imaging equipments. Every chapter consists of a short description of causative agent, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, laboratory tests, and imaging findings with illustrative examples of parasitic diseases.

Author : S.J. Bartlett,P. Suber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400935518

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Self-Reference by S.J. Bartlett,P. Suber Pdf

Self-reference, although a topic studied by some philosophers and known to a number of other disciplines, has received comparatively little explicit attention. For the most part the focus of studies of self-reference has been on its logical and linguistic aspects, with perhaps disproportionate emphasis placed on the reflexive paradoxes. The eight-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example, does not contain a single entry in its index under "self-reference", and in connection with "reflexivity" mentions only "relations", "classes", and "sets". Yet, in this volume, the introductory essay identifies some 75 varieties and occurrences of self-reference in a wide range of disciplines, and the bibliography contains more than 1,200 citations to English language works about reflexivity. The contributed papers investigate a number of forms and applications of self-reference, and examine some of the challenges posed by its difficult temperament. The editors hope that readers of this volume will gain a richer sense of the sti11largely unexplored frontiers of reflexivity, and of the indispensability of reflexive concepts and methods to foundational inquiries in philosophy, logic, language, and into the freedom, personality and intelligence of persons.

Author : Robert C. Benchley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226042189

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The Benchley Roundup by Robert C. Benchley Pdf

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 : James Thurber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : UOM:39015038154806

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Writings and Drawings by James Thurber Pdf

Gathers previously uncollected cartoons and humorous stories.

Author : Ono Yutaka,Aleksandar Janca,Masahiro Asai,Norman Sartorius
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9784431685005

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Somatoform Disorders by Ono Yutaka,Aleksandar Janca,Masahiro Asai,Norman Sartorius Pdf

Medically unexplained somatic symptoms are problematic in psychiatry, primary care settings, and other clinical areas. The burden they impose on health-care systems constitutes a significant public health problem. At the international symposium "Rethinking Somatoform Disorders," this problem was addressed by specialists working in somatoform disorders, psychiatric nosology, epidemiology, and biological and cross-cultural psychiatry. The meeting was the third of the Keio University International Symposia for Life Sciences and Medicine, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the World Psychiatric Association.

Author : Jan Toporski,Thomas Dieing,Olaf Hollricher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319753805

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Confocal Raman Microscopy by Jan Toporski,Thomas Dieing,Olaf Hollricher Pdf

This second edition provides a cutting-edge overview of physical, technical and scientific aspects related to the widely used analytical method of confocal Raman microscopy. The book includes expanded background information and adds insights into how confocal Raman microscopy, especially 3D Raman imaging, can be integrated with other methods to produce a variety of correlative microscopy combinations. The benefits are then demonstrated and supported by numerous examples from the fields of materials science, 2D materials, the life sciences, pharmaceutical research and development, as well as the geosciences.

Author : Woody Allen
Publisher : Random House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307548054

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Three One-Act Plays by Woody Allen Pdf

Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine Woody Allen’s first dramatic writing published in years, “Riverside Drive,” “Old Saybrook,” and “Central Park West” are humorous, insightful, and unusually readable plays about infidelity. The characters, archetypal New Yorkers all, start out talking innocently enough, but soon the most unexpected things arise—and the reader enjoys every minute of it (though not all the characters do). These plays (successfully produced on the New York stage and in regional theaters on the East Coast) dramatize Allen’s continuing preoccupation with people who rationalize their actions, hide what they’re doing, and inevitably slip into sexual deception—all of it revealed in Allen’s quintessentially pell-mell dialogue.

Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598536966

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Donald Barthelme: Collected Stories (LOA #343) by Donald Barthelme Pdf

The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the form The short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of invention and pathos that have dazzled and delighted readers since the 1960s. Here, for the first time, these essential stories are preserved as they were published in Barthelme's original collections, beginning with Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964), a book that made a generation of readers sit up and take notice. Collected Stories also includes the work that appeared for the first time in Barthelme's two retrospective anthologies, Sixty and Forty, as well as a selection of uncollected stories. Discover, in this comprehensive gathering, Barthelme's unique approach to fiction, his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths, his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights, and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, which was for him "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century." Engage with sophisticated works of fiction that, often in just the space of a few pages, wrest profundities out of what might first seem merely ephemeral, even trivial. And experience, along with Barthelme's imaginative and frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring. Introduced with a sharp and discerning essay by editor Charles McGrath and annotation that clarifies Barthelme's freewheeling, wide-ranging allusions, the landmark volume is a desert-island edition for fans and the ideal introduction to new readers eager to find out why, as Dave Eggers writes, Barthelme's "every sentence ... makes me want to stop and write something of my own. He fires all of my synapses and connects them in new ways."

Author : S. J. Perelman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974296237

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Best of S. J. Perelman by S. J. Perelman Pdf

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.