Research Catalog

Title

Without a stitch in time; a selection of the best humorous short pieces.

Author

De Vries, Peter, 1910-1993.

Publication

Boston, Little, Brown [1972]

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Details

Description

viii, 328 pages; 21 cm

Subject

• Wit and humor
• Short stories, American
• humor

Genre/Form

• Short stories, American.
• short stories.
• Humorous fiction.
• Short stories.
• Nouvelles.

Note

• Short stories.

Contents

A Hard day at the office -- Slice of life -- Flesh and the devil -- Mud in your eye -- Afternoon of a faun -- Interior with figures -- Good boy -- Tulip -- Every leave that falls -- Compulsion -- Scene -- A Crying need -- In defense of self-pity; or, Prelude to Löwenbräu -- The High ground; or, Look, Ma, I'm explicating -- The Independent voter at twilight -- The Conversational ball -- Adventures of a people buff -- Heart -- Requiem for a noun; or, Intruder in the dusk -- The House of mirth -- Split-level -- Till the sands of the desert grow cold -- From there to infinity -- Overture -- Reuben, Reuben -- Touch and go -- Fall guy -- You and who else? -- Nobody's fool -- Block -- Double or nothing -- Journey to the center of the room -- Different cultural levels eat here -- The Man who read Waugh -- The Art of self-dramatization; or, Forward from Schrecklichkeit -- The Children's hour; or, Hopscotch and soda -- The Irony of it all -- Laughter in the basement -- Part of the family picture -- You know me Alice -- A Walk in the country; or, How to keep fit to be tied -- The Last of the bluenoses -- Scones and stones -- Forever panting -- James Thurber : the comic Prufrock -- Exploring inner space.

ISBN

• 9780316181860
• 0316181862

LCCN

72005163

OCLC

• ocm00347907
• 347907
• SCSB-156111

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library