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This book added quite a bit to my awareness of early-to-mid 20th century humor. Not that I couldn't have thought of most of these authors if I thought about it, but who would have thought about whether Life with Father began life as a book? I ended up skipping a lot of the early stories that were heavy on the dialect, but all in all, this added quite a bit to my to-read list. James Thurber, Sally Benson, and Clarence Day top my list to check out. ( )
When I was in 6th grade, Sr. Marina, SSND (Catholic school survivors will recognize those initials), asked me to read a story aloud from our class reader. My test was to pronounce the word “zephyr,” and when I got it right, she asked me if I knew what it meant. I must have read it somewhere, because I said, “a warm wind.” I loved reading aloud, and the story was so funny, I had a hard time reading over the class’ laughter. I have tried to find that story, and this Modern Library edition published in 1945 represents my latest effort in that search.
Many of the stories include dialect and slang difficult to decipher. A few I knew well, such as “Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry. All the great humorists of the first half of the 20th century are here. A lot of dated and “un-PC” humor but good laughs still abound. Some sound like routines from an old Marx Brothers’ film, and some are downright hilarious. The two by Ring Lardner, “Mr. and Mrs. Fix It” and “Three Without Doubled,” had me in stitches. I had forgotten how funny Lardner’s stories could be.
My story involving a camping trip, mosquitoes, and bears (alas, all I remember) does not live in this book. The search continues. 4 stars
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Please do not combine this work, which was edited by Robert N. Linscott, with the work of the same title edited by Alexander Jessup. The contents are almost completely different, even though both are numbered 87 in the Modern Library series.
Contents: Swallowing an oyster alive / John S. Robb -- How daddy played hoss / George W. Harris -- The Shakers / Artemus Ward -- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning / Mark Twain -- Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain -- Brother rabbit takes some exercise / Joel Chandler Harris -- How brother rabbit frightened his neighbors / Joel Chandler Harris -- How Mr. Rooster lost his dinner / Joel Chandler Harris -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / Bret Harte -- A piece of red calico / Frank R. Stockton -- Mr. Dooley on the game of football / Finley Peter Dunne -- Pigs is pigs / Ellis Parker Butler -- The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- Little gentleman / Booth Tarkington -- Three without doubled / Ring Lardner -- Mr. and Mrs. Fix-It / Ring Lardner -- Death of red peril / Walter D. Edmonds -- Travel is so broadening / Sinclair Lewis -- The crazy fool / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Mr. and Mrs. Haddock abroad / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Benny and the bird-dogs / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- The legislature / James M. Cain -- The little hours / Dorothy Parker -- But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker -- The snatching of Bookie Bob / Damon Runyon -- An interesting cure / Frank Sullivan -- Gendarmes and the man / Donald Moffat -- Carnival days in sunny Las Los / Robert Benchley -- The guest / Marc Connelly -- Primrose path / Sally Benson -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The night the bed fell / James Thurber -- The night the ghost got in / James Thurber -- University days / James Thurber -- The man who hated Moonbaum / James Thurber -- Father and his hard-rocking ship / Clarence Day -- The prince / Ruth McKenney -- Chocolate for the woodwork / Arthur Kober -- The terrible vengeance of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N / Leonard Q. Ross -- Hand in nub / St. Clair McKelway --Down with the Restoration / S.J. Perelman -- Kitchen bouquet / S.J. Perelman -- Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman.
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