Will Cuppy American Satirist

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786469611

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Will Cuppy, American Satirist by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

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 : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26T00:00:00Z
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781774647127

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How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House by Will Cuppy Pdf

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!

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Humor
ISBN : 156792297X

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How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes by Will Cuppy Pdf

A survey of life on earth, in all its variety and pagentry, by a very annoyed humorist. From early man, the Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, to irascible observations on mankind and the animal kingdom today (including "Birds I Could Do Without"), Will Cuppy, a perennially perturbed hermit, is your guide in these are very funny essays. For eight years, from 1921 to 1929, Will Cuppy lived alone on Jones Island, off Long Island's South Shore. From that outpost, he gained a reputation for his factual but funny magazine articles and wrote the book, How to be a Hermit, his first bestseller. His last, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, was left unfinished after Cuppy's death in 1949 and has become a classic of American humor. In between (among other titles) was this very funny collection. First published in 1931, the subjects include "What I Hate About Spring," "Awful Mammals," and "Why Be a Rhinoceros?" Great for anyone who loves classic American humor.

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0226128261

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How to Become Extinct by Will Cuppy Pdf

Humorous essays poke fun at the natural world, extinct animals, pet snakes, and the noises of fish

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : MetroBooks (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : World history
ISBN : 1586637339

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy Pdf

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 : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1567921566

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How to Attract the Wombat by Will Cuppy Pdf

A survey of the animal kingdom in which the nocturnal and tunneling wombat is awarded the greatest praise. Will Cuppy was something like the Larry David of the mid-20th century. From his perch as a staff writer at The New Yorker, Cuppy observed the world and found a great deal that annoyed him. This collection of essays on animals includes "Birds Who Can't Even Fly," "Optional Insects," "Octopuses and Those Things", and "How to Swat a Fly," which codifies the essentials in ten hilarious principles. And three essays on wombats. Perfect reading for the perplexed, befuddled, and perpetually irritated.

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UCAL:$B111914

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How to Get from January to December by Will Cuppy Pdf

Author : Julian Glander
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683961802

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3D Sweeties by Julian Glander Pdf

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.

Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : University of Chicago
ISBN : UOM:39015022193737

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Maroon Tales by Will Cuppy Pdf

Author : Dave Barry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307758712

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Dave Barry Slept Here by Dave Barry Pdf

“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 : P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781555847067

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Age and Guile by P. J. O'Rourke Pdf

The political humorist shares his transformation from dirty hippie to conservative middle-aged grouch: “An incorrigible comic gift” (The New York Times Book Review). The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Give War a Chance was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, P. J. O’Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that took him from the lighthearted fun of the revolutionary barricades to the serious business of the nineteenth hole. How did the O’Rourke of 1970, who summarized the world of “grown-ups” as “materialism, sexual hang-ups, the Republican party, uncomfortable clothes, engagement rings, car accidents, Pat Boone, competition, patriotism, cheating, lying, ranch houses, and TV” come to be in favor of all of those things? What caused his metamorphosis from a beatnik-hippie type comfortable sleeping on dirty mattresses in pot-addled communes during his days as a writer for assorted “underground” papers? Here, O’Rourke shows how his socialist idealism and avant-garde aesthetic tendencies were cured, and how he acquired a healthy and commendable interest in national defense, balanced budgets, Porsches, and Cohiba cigars. From a former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon and frequent NPR guest, this hilarious essay collection shows that there’s hope for all those suffering from acute bohemianism.

Author : W C Sellar
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014250234

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1066 and All That by W C Sellar Pdf

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Author : James Thurber,E. B. White
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780060733148

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Is Sex Necessary? by James Thurber,E. B. White Pdf

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.

Author : James L Haley
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465021673

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Wolf by James L Haley Pdf

Born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876, Jack London spent his youth as a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast; by adulthood he had matured into the iconic American author of such still universally loved books as The Call of the Wild and White Fang. In Wolf, award-winning biographer James L. Haley explores the forgotten Jack London: a hard-living globetrotter bristling with ideas whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Haley resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.

Author : Thorne Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547184485

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The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith Pdf

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.