Research Catalog

Title

A barrel of laughs, a vale of tears / Jules Feiffer.

Author

Feiffer, Jules.

Publication

[New York] : HarperCollins Publishers, 1998, c1995.

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Details

Description

180 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Prince Roger is sent on a quest, the purpose of which is to turn the carefree young prince into a sober man and worthy monarch. Roger gets everything wrong--except for the meaning of life, and that he gets right. "Feiffer follows "The Man in the Ceiling" with another winner, this time a rollicking medieval farce that pokes fun at medieval farces--and just about everything else--while managing at the same time to be hilarious, engaging and thoroughly entertaining".--"Family Life". Prince Roger sets out eagerly on a quest and finds a few adventures, a lot of friends, a damsel or two in distress (not!) and himself, in the end. A carrier of joy' whose mere presence causes everyone to laugh uncontrollably, Roger finds cruelty and kindness equally amusing, and expects his quest to be a lark. It's anything but: As Roger passes through the Forever Forest, nearly starves at the Dastardly Divide, sees people at their worst in the Valley of Vengeance, and temporarily despairs in the Mountains of Malice, he sobers up, learns to care for others, becomes an expert peacemaker, does Good Deeds, and falls in love with Lady Sadie, who says what she thinks as she repeatedly saves his bacon.'-K. Feiffer's worldly-wise, confiding tone and sense of the absurd are highly congenial, and the drawings are a vintage Feiffer delight.'-Publishers Weekly. 100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1995 (NY Public Library)

Subject

• Fairy tales
• Princes > Fiction
• Humorous stories
• Princes > Juvenile fiction
• Humorous stories
• Laughter > Juvenile fiction

Genre/Form

• Kinderbuch.
• Fiction
• Juvenile works

Note

• "Harper Trophy"--Spine.
• "Michael di Capua books."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hunter of boar or stag -- King whatchamacallit -- J. Wellington wizard -- Forever forest -- Night of the frogs -- Tom -- Best party on the face of the earth -- Abraca... -- Wizard's revenge -- Farewell to the forever forest -- Lady Sadie -- Dastardly divide -- Farewell to the dastardly divide -- Valley of vengeance -- End of a friendship -- Further explanation -- Back to the dastardly divide -- Across the sea of screams and into the mountain of malice -- Andrew -- Doveen the serene -- Toast -- Wait -- Change -- Vale of tears -- Tom comes back into the book -- Stone -- Not really -- Next-to-last chapter -- Seven pages to go.

ISBN

• 0062059262 (pbk.) :
• 9780062059260 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 38996402
• SCSB-12237160

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library