[Mobile pdf] Leman Benchley Lost and Found (Dover Humor)
♛ Robert Benchley ♛
| #1230558 in Books | 1970-06-01 | 1970-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.44 x.41 x5.41l,.49 | File Name: 0486224104 | 183 pages
||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Thirty Nine Flavors of a Good Humor Man|By Neil Shephard|Like its cousin the comedic film the humorous essay rarely wins critical acclaim. Tragedy gets the Oscar, comedy a pat on the back. In the literary domain too tears of sorrow are more esteemed than tears of laughter. Heaven save us from a world all somber. Give us more writers like Robert Benchley. BENCHLEY: LO|.com |James Thurber once said that every humorist is haunted by the idea that the piece she is working on was done faster and better by Robert Benchley in 1919. And if Thurber said that, the scrubs that pass for wits today should be doubly scared. (Dave Barry
These "39 prodigal pieces" show Robert Benchley at the height of his whimsicality, damning with gentle urbanity all the things that peeve every one of us — but with a wit and mock anger none of the rest of us could have managed. The discomforts of travel on trains, large and heavy suitcases that must be carried by unwilling porters, standing in line at the post office (then to learn that your package is improperly tied), malicious fogs that blot out t...
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