archyology: the long lost tales of archy and mehitabel

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"Archy and his racy pal Mehitabel are timeless," noted E. B. White in his essay on Don Marquis and his famous creations, and the undimmed enthusiasm of several generations of fans -- who every year buy thousands of copies of Marquis' earlier collections -- testifies to their appeal. A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertained readers with iconoclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos during Marquis' career as a New York newspaper columnist in the 1920s and...
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Overview

"Archy and his racy pal Mehitabel are timeless," noted E. B. White in his essay on Don Marquis and his famous creations, and the undimmed enthusiasm of several generations of fans -- who every year buy thousands of copies of Marquis' earlier collections -- testifies to their appeal. A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertained readers with iconoclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos during Marquis' career as a New York newspaper columnist in the 1920s and 30s.

Allegedly tapping out stories at night by leaping from key to key on Marquis' typewriter, archy couldn't quite manage the shift key for capital letters. Although his tales appeared in lower case, his views achieved a level grand enough to solidify Marquis' reputation as an American humorist in the tradition of Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, and Ring Lardner. archyology brings together selected "lost" tales that were literally rescued from oblivion by Jeff Adams, who found them among papers stored in a steamer trunk since Marquis' death.

And so archy emerges from his long silence. Whether reporting on characters like emmet the ghost, sailing to Paris to visit the insects of Europe, being trapped for days in a New York subway train, or hanging out in a Long Island orchard enjoying fermented cherries, archy is always both provocative and inimitable. With illustrations by Ed Frascino, a New Yorker regular, this collection reintroduces a delightful cast of characters who reconfirm archy's view of the world: "the only way to live with it is to laugh at it."

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"This sweet, sweet volume brings Marquis (and his cockroach and cat) back to us. It's such an unexpected treat . . . Readers (and children and grandchildren of readers) of Don Marquis will dearly love and welcome this book."--Washington Post
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781584658061
  • Publisher: University Press of New England
  • Publication date: 8/31/2009
  • Pages: 120
  • Sales rank: 777,772
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

DON MARQUIS (1878 - 1937) wrote daily for the New York Sun and Herald Tribune and was author of many books. Inveterate Marquis devotee and collector Jeff Adams is a corporate consultant and novelist living in Belvedere, CA. Ed Frascino is a New Yorker cartoonist and illustrator of many books, including Rudyard Kipling's Elephant Child (1987) and E. B. White's Trumpet of the Swan (1970). They have also collaborated on a sequel, archyology ii (the final dig).
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Table of Contents

preface and so what next mehitabel s motto that cockroach glide archy insists wish i were keats plaint of spring all the french paris or bust over the limit archy repels an attack of whales captain s progress mehitabel at sea archy reaches paris what can a lady do aunt prudence hecklebury archy figures out aunt prudence idle thought diplomacy the insects of europe archy explains the romanoffs the famous fish of the seine all for science archy the cockroach turns detective archy crawls among the h s georgie the college centipede georgie hears from archy o volstead dear volstead king nicky ode the tired ghost archy mehitabel and emmet the ghost archygrams the gloomy bullfrog no literary slave archy gardens the crippled cockroach lessons of the fairies archy bewails an absence kindness believe it boss
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