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Will Cuppy, American Satirist: A Biography
Wes D. Gehring“[Sexy coed Edith Ward] owned a smile ... that would soften the heart ofa trigonometry professor.”—From Will Cuppy's Maroon Tales: University ofChicago Stories (1909)1 The year 1902 was a good time for Cuppy to leave Auburn, Indiana.
How to Become Extinct
Will CuppyIn these 40 brief, witty essays, Will Cuppy, a perennially perturbed hermit who thought life was out to get him, turns his unflinching attention on those members of the animal kingdom whose habits are disagreeable, whose appearances are ...
How to Be a Hermit, Or a Batchelor Keeps House
Will CuppyA humorous look at a hermit's housekeeping on Jones Island, off of Long Island, New York. Cuppy is one of the America's early 20th Century's most loved comic author.
How to Attract the Wombat
Will CuppyHere is one of his three classic "How-To's," considering notable birds and animals whose habits (and often existence) seem to have disturbed Cuppy ("Birds Who Can't Even Fly," "Optional Insects," "Octopuses and Those Things"), as well as ...
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
Will CuppyOriginally published: New York: Holt, 1950.
How to Attract the Wombat
Will CuppyA humorous and affectionate look at the nature of animals by the author of The Decline & Fall of Practically Everybody.
How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes
Will CuppyHe is also, says P. G. Wodehouse in his introduction to the present volume, "the author of the best thing said about Pekingese, viz. 'I don't know why they should look so conceited. They're no better than we are.
Maroon Tales: University of Chicago Stories (Classic Reprint)
Will J. CuppyExcerpt from Maroon Tales: University of Chicago Stories About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
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