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245 04 $aThe Best of modern humor /$cedited by Mordecai Richler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c1983.
300 $axix, 542 p. ;$c24 cm.
530 $aAlso issued online.
505 0 $aGertrude the governess: Or simple seventeen / Stephen Leacock -- King Lear's daughter / Maurice Baring -- Recollections of notable cops / H. L. Mencken -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- Ukridge's accident syndicate / P. G. Wodehouse -- The busher's honeymoon / Ring Lardner -- Correspondence with David Wallace / Marianne Moore -- Opera Synopses / Robert Benchley -- If men played cards as women do / George S. Kaufman -- Letters to Warner Brothers and Gummo Marx / Groucho Marx -- The cliche expert testifies on love / Frank Sullivan -- The intrusions of Captain Foulenough / J. B. Morton (Beachcomber) -- The breaking up of the Winships / James Thurber -- Across the street and into the grill / E. B. White -- Time...fortune...life...Luce / Wolcott Gibbs -- excerpt from Cold Comfort Farm / Stella Gibbons -- Winner takes all / Evelyn Waugh -- "Nothing but a little pissant" excerpt from The Earl of Louisiana / A. J. Liebling -- Farewell, my lovely appetizer / S. J. Perelman -- Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N, the comparative, and the superlative, excerpt from The education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N / Leo Rosten -- Why I live at the P. O. / Eudora Welty -- Requiem for a noun, or intruder in the dusk / Peter de Vries -- Keats and Chapman / Flann O'Brien (Myles na Gopaleen) -- The chaste Clarissa / John Cheever -- The Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowerese / Oliver Jensen -- excerpt from To Jerusalem and back / Saul Bellow -- Emigration, excerpt from Daughters and Rebels / Jessica Mitford -- Another goddam Englishman, excerpt from One fat Englishman / Kingsley Amis -- Report on the Barnhouse effect / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Gold's stepmother, excerpt from Good as gold / Joseph Heller -- excerpt from Clinging to the wreckage / John Mortimer -- Toujours Tristesse / Jean Kerr -- A day's work / Truman Capote -- I am Mike Hammer / Terry Southern -- Chef Reinhart, excerpt from Reinhart's Women / Thomas Berger -- Bomb math / Russell Baker -- Saving paper / Art Buchwald -- Just plain folks / Kenneth Tynan -- YMA dream / Thomas Meehan -- Bernie Perk, excerpt from The Dick Gibson Show / Stanley Elkin -- The lonely guy's apartment / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Four hacks / Wilfrid Sheed -- Game / Donald Barthelme -- The mechanical genius / V. S. Naipaul -- The mid-Atlantic man / Tom Wolfe -- Whacking off, excerpt from Portnoy's complaint / Philip roth -- Dinner at Binny's, excerpt from Injury time / Beryl Bainbridge -- The Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen -- Popular Workbench / Bruce McCall -- Dinner at the de la Rentas' / Calvin Trillin -- How to be a Jewish mother / Dan Greenburg -- Hip wedding on Mount Tam, excerpt from The serial / Cyra McFadden -- Long ago and far away / Alan Coren -- The analytic napkin / Marshall Brickman -- Mrs. Proby gets hers, excerpt from Three Wogs / Alexander Theroux -- A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron -- The oranging of America / Max Apple -- Trash no more / Roy Blount, Jr. -- My Mao / Veronica Geng -- Shy rights: Why not pretty soon? / Garrison Keillor -- The commune, excerpt from Kinflicks / Lisa Alther -- America's cup '83: The sherpa's challenge / Lynn Caraganis -- Notes on "Trick" / Fran Lebowitz -- Dating your mom / Ian Frazier.
650 0 $aAmerican wit and humor.
650 0 $aEnglish wit and humor.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century.
650 6 $aHumour américain.
650 6 $aHumour anglais.
650 6 $aLittérature américaine$y20e siècle.
650 6 $aLittérature anglaise$y20e siècle.
700 1 $aRichler, Mordecai,$d1931-2001.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tBest of modern humor.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1983$w(OCoLC)557785771
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