Archyology: The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel

by Don Marquis

Overview

America's beloved archy and mehitabel finally return in these entrancing uncollected stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781584658061
Publisher:	University Press of New England
Publication date:	08/31/2009
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About 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).

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

What People are Saying About This

Joyce Carol Oates

“Delightful, quirky, unpredictable — a gem.”

Roz Chast

“Archy's profound musings on love, politics, and much, much more are perfectly illustrated by Edward Frascino's witty and beautiful drawings.”

George Booth

“The whole book is a pleasure: the right words in the right places with the right drawings. Delightful drawings.”

Editorial Reviews

"archy is more peripatetic than usual in these books -- he moves away from his old haunts in New York in order to observe the strange goings on in Paris, though with that same jaundiced eye . . . Marquis's gifts as a comic satirist have often been written about. Less has been said about the fact that he was also tilting at the excesses of American writers of bad free verse when he had archy write in the way that he did . . . [he created] two of America's most enduring comic characters."--The Economist

"Fans of Marquis can take heart, there's still more to come . . . Allegedly hurling himself headlong at the keys of Marquis' typewriter by night, archy would tap out his lower-case observations on our place in the cosmos while mehitabel pranced down Shinbone Alley . . . It's grand to see there's a dance or two in the old dame yet."--Boston Sunday Globe

"Some years ago Jeff Adams, a Marquis buff, turned up a trove of papers containing a number of works by archy the cockroach which had escaped inclusion in any Marquis anthology. Four appeared at the time in The Atlantic, but problems with illustrations have delayed book publication until the present. Now, happily for true archyphiles and admirers of subtle encroachment, here they all are, with witty drawings by Ed Frascino."--The Atlantic

"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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