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  • The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

    by Will Cuppy ...
    A New York Times–bestselling, comical take on world history from the beloved New Yorker humorist.So, you think you know most of what there is to know about people like Nero and Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godiva and Miles Standish? You say there's nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you'll find Will Cuppy footloose in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Be A Hermit

    by Will Cuppy ...
    Humorous memoir by a socially-challenged book reviewer living alone in a shack on an island off Long Island, New York, in the 1920s. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

    by Will Cuppy ...
    A survey of life on earth, in all its variety and pagentry, by a very annoyed humorist.From early man, the Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, to irascible observations on mankind and the animal kingdom today (including “Birds I Could Do Without”), Will Cuppy, a perennially perturbed hermit, is your guide in these are very funny essays.For eight years, from 1921 to 1929, Will Cuppy lived alone on Jones ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How to Attract the Wombat

    by Will Cuppy ...
    A survey of the animal kingdom in which the nocturnal and tunneling wombat is awarded the greatest praise.Will Cuppy was something like the Larry David of the mid-20th century. From his perch as a staff writer at The New Yorker, Cuppy observed the world and found a great deal that annoyed him. This collection of essays on animals includes “Birds Who Can’t Even Fly,” “Optional Insects,” “Octopuses ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • How to Be a Hermit or a Bachelor Keeps House

    by Will Cuppy ...
    From the author of funny classics like “How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes” and “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody.” Here in “How to Be a Hermit” are humorous essays and stories discussing house cleaning, cooking, sardines, spinach, clams, lettuce, cabbage, beans, coffee, budgets, entertaining, and the holidays. Will Cuppy (1884-1949) wrote extensively on his life as a hermit, the ... Read more

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