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The Annotated Archy and Mehitabelby Don MarquisISBN 014303975X (0-14-303975-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mark Twain. These free-verse poems, which first appeared in Marquis's New York newspaper columns, revolve around the escapades of Archy, the philosophical cockroach who was once a poet, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was once Cleopatra. Reincarnated as the lowest creatures on the social scale, they prowl the rowdy streets of New York City in between the world wars. The antics of these two immortal characters are now made available for the first time in their original order of publication in this unique, comprehensive collection, which features many poems never before reprinted.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Archy and Mehitabel is considered the inspiration for E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
- Features many new poems never reprinted since they were first published early in the twentieth century
- Introduction places Marquis in the context of American humor and the history of satire
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Archaeology IIby Don Marquis , Jeff AdamsISBN 0874518539 (0-87451-853-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Archy and Mehitabelby Don MarquisISBN 0385094787 (0-385-09478-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archy and Mehitabel'Book summary:Of all the literary genres, humor has the shortest shelf life--except for Archy and Mehitabel, that is. First published in 1916, it is a classic of American literature. Archy is a cockroach, inside whom resides the soul of a free-verse poet; he communicates with Don Marquis by leaping upon the keys of the columnist's typewriter. In poems of varying length, Archy pithily describes his wee world, the main fixture of which is Mehitabel, a devil-may-care alley cat.
Archy music will linger in your head long after you finish the book. Here's a tiny taste from his interview with a mummy:
"what ho
my regal leatherface says igreetings
little scatter footed
scarab
says he"Writers (particularly journalists) can go lifetimes without attaining such loose-limbed grace. And the illustrations by George Herriman ("Krazy Kat") provide the perfect counterpoint. On top of all that, Marquis did the impossible: he made a cockroach loveable. [via]
The Archy and Mehitabel Omnibusby Don MarquisISBN 0571193862 (0-571-19386-2)
Softcover, Faber & Faber, Limited
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Archyologyby Don Marquis , Jeff Adams, Ed FrascinoISBN 0874517451 (0-87451-745-1)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Carter and Other Peopleby Don MarquisISBN 0548690707 (0-548-69070-7)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Chapters for the Orthodoxby Don MarquisISBN 0836936655 (0-8369-3665-5)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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The Cruise of the Jasper Bby Don MarquisISBN 1404344519 (1-4043-4451-9)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cruise of the Jasper B'Book summary:an excerpt from CHAPTER I: A BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY SCABBARD On an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately into the news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colored walking-stick in his hand. He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street coat for a more sober office jacket, adjusted a green eyeshade below his primly brushed grayish hair, unostentatiously sat down at the copy desk, and unobtrusively opened a drawer. From the drawer he took a can of tobacco, a pipe, a pair of scissors, a paste-pot and brush, a pile of copy paper, a penknife and three half-lengths of lead pencil. The can of tobacco was not remarkable. The pipe was not picturesque. The scissors were the most ordinary of scissors. The copy paper was quite undistinguished in appearance. The lead pencils had the most untemperamental looking points. Cleggett himself, as he filled and lighted the pipe, did it in the most matter-of-fact sort of way. Then he remarked to the head of the copy desk, in an average kind of voice: "H'lo, Jim." "H'lo, Clegg," said Jim, without looking up. "Might as well begin on this bunch of early copy, I guess." For more than ten years Cleggett had done the same thing at the same time in the same manner, six nights of the week. What he did on the seventh night no one ever thought to inquire. If any member of the Enterprise staff had speculated about it at all he would have assumed that Cleggett spent that seventh evening in some way essentially commonplace, sober, unemotional, quiet, colorless, dull and Brooklynitish. Cleggett lived in Brooklyn. The superficial observer might have said that Cleggett and Brooklyn were made for each other. The superficial observer! How many there are of him! And how much he misses! He misses, in fact, everything. At two o'clock in the morning a telegraph operator approached the copy desk and handed Cleggett a sheet of yellow paper, with the remark: "Cleggett personal wire." It was a night letter, and glancing at the signature Cleggett saw that it was from his brother who lived in Boston. It ran: Uncle Tom died yesterday. Don't faint now. He splits bulk fortune between you and me. Lawyers figure nearly $500,000 each. Mostly easily negotiable securities. New will made month ago while sore at president temperance outfit. Blood thicker than Apollinaris after all. Poor Uncle Tom. Edward. Despite Edward's thoughtful warning, Cleggett did nearly faint. Nothing could have been less expected. Uncle Tom was an irascible prohibitionist, and one of the most deliberately disobliging men on earth. Cleggett and his brother had long ceased to expect anything from him. For twenty years it had been thoroughly understood that Uncle Tom would leave his entire estate to a temperance society. Cleggett had ceased to think of Uncle Tom as a possible factor in his life. He did not doubt that Uncle Tom had changed the will to gain some point with the officials of the temperance society, intending to change it once again after he had been deferred to, cajoled, and flattered enough to placate his vanity. But death had stepped in just in time to disinherit the enemies of the Demon Rum. [via]
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Danny's Own Storyby Don MarquisISBN 1408600951 (1-4086-0095-1)
Softcover, Das Pr
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The Dark Hours: Five Scenes from a Historyby Don MarquisISBN 1417964502 (1-4179-6450-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Dreams And Dustby Don MarquisISBN 1406784222 (1-4067-8422-2)
Softcover, Read Books
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Golf Talesby Don MarquisISBN 067083629X (0-670-83629-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Hermione And Her Little Group Of Serious Thinkersby Don MarquisISBN 1404307273 (1-4043-0727-3)
Softcover, IndyPublish.com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers'Book summary:Short excerpt: A salon weird where congregate Freak, Nut and Bug and Psychic Bum. [via]
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The History of the Fighting Fourteenth: 14th Brooklyn State Militiaby Don Marquis , C. V. TevisISBN 0935523375 (0-935523-37-5)
Hardcover, Stan Clark Military Books
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The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabelby Don MarquisISBN 0385042620 (0-385-04262-0)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The Old Soak and Hail and Farewellby Don Marquis , Sterling PattersonISBN 1417905921 (1-4179-0592-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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The Revolt of the Oysterby Don MarquisISBN 1417908246 (1-4179-0824-6)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Revolt of the Oyster'Book summary:1922. A collection of short-stories from Marquis, American newspaperman and humorist, who was an uninhibited enemy of prohibition. Marquis's most memorable writings are his stories and verses about Archy and Mehitabel. Contents: The Revolt of the Oyster; If We Could Only See; How Hank Signed the Pledge; Accursed Hat!; Rooney's Touchdown; Too American; The Saddest Man; Dogs and Boys; The Kidnapping of Bill Patterson; Blood Will Tell; Being a Public Character; and Written in Blood. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Sonnets to a Red Haired Lady, by a Gentlemen With a Blue Beard, and Famous Love Affairsby Don Marquis , Stuart HayISBN 1417911271 (1-4179-1127-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sonnets to a Red Haired Lady, by a Gentlemen With a Blue Beard, and Famous Love Affairs'Book summary:1922. Marquis, American newspaperman and humorist, who was an uninhibited enemy of prohibition. His most memorable writings are his stories and verses featuring Archy the transmigrated cockroach and Mehitabel the cat. Some of Marquis's funniest verses are included in this volume, which contains clever sonnets, the poems in the Famous Love Affairs and more than a dozen other smirky stories that take their cue from improbable sources such as the Bible and the writings of Homer and Shakespeare. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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Sun Dial Timeby Don MarquisISBN 0836936760 (0-8369-3676-0)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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A Variety of Peopleby Don MarquisISBN 1417937939 (1-4179-3793-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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When the Turtles Sing and Other Unusual Talesby Don MarquisISBN 1417917032 (1-4179-1703-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When the Turtles Sing and Other Unusual Tales'Book summary:1928. A collection of short-stories from Marquis, American newspaperman and humorist, who was an uninhibited enemy of prohibition. Marquis's most memorable writings are his stories and verses about Archy and Mehitabel. Contents: When the Turtles Sing; The Tablecloth Millionaire; The Flea, The Pup, and the Millennium; A Fighting Parson; A Keeper of Tradition; The High Pitch; The Spots of the Leopard; The Well; The Inside Story of Waterloo; O'Meara, The Mayflower-and Mrs. MacLirr. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. [via]
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