The Best of Archy and Mehitabel
A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel.Don Marquis's famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. A poet in a former life, Archy was reincarnated as a bug who expresses himself by diving headfirst onto a typewriter. His sidekick Mehitabel is a streetwise feline who claims to have been Cleopatra in a previous life. As E. B. White wrote in his now-classic introduction, the Archy poems contain cosmic reverberations along with high comedy and have the jewel-like pe…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-82836-1
- EAN: 9780307828361
- Produktnummer: 15725679
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'536 KB
Über den Autor
Don Marquis (1878-1937) was a journalist and columnist in New York City and the author of several novels, short-story collections, and plays.E. B. White (1899-1985) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, New Yorker contributor, and author of Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web.
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