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The Algonquin Wits: Bon Mots, Wisecracks, Epigrams and Gags |  | Creator: Robert E. Drennan
Publisher: Citadel
Category: eBooks
This item is no longer available
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 77241
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 180
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 817.5208
ASIN: B001QS9TNO
Publication Date: January 1, 2002
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 Wonderfully witty! November 28, 2008
Keith Connes (Goleta, CA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you are acquainted with the writings and personalities of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woolcott and other distinguished wits who lunched in the '30s and early '40s at their special table in New York's Algonquin Hotel, you will especially relish this small but golden collection of their sophisticated one-liners - mostly barbed put-downs. But even if those names are unfamiliar to you, I think you'll enjoy this book if you appreciate sophisticated repartee. Incidentally, one member of the select group was Harpo Marx, who never uttered a word while performing as the zaniest of the Marx Brothers. A couple of Harpo's sallies are included in this delightful compilation.
Humor of the Times October 27, 2007
J. D. Mccarthy (San Mateo, CA)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
For those who enjoy the classic wit of the 30s and 40s this is a truly fun read. It's a shame we don't seem to have any folks with the intellect and pithy observations of our society we once had. I highly recommend this book as throwback to those times.
 Not quite what i expected January 10, 2007
jachorn (Venice, CA USA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I was hoping for something a little more substantial from the description of this book, which turned out to be a slim volume at best. I was searching for some compendium of the Algonquin wits, and this was I'm afraid, about it! It is not without some merit, however dissappointing the selections are (small snippets - more anecdotal than anything else - representing the range of most of the members of the Round Table). It does offer a decent over-view of the prime members of the club with some literary tastes of their various and varying works. The playwrights are not that well represented, but some of the lesser know news reporters are. An appetizer waiting for a delicious feast to be compiled someday.
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