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"Archy and his racy pal Mehitabel are timeless," noted E. B. White in his essay on Don Marquis and his famous creations, and the undimmed enthusiasm of several generations of fans - who every year buy thousands of copies of Marquis' earlier collections - testifies to their appeal. A whimsical and sophisticated sage, archy the cockroach entertained readers with iconoclastic observations on pretensions, politics, and our place in the cosmos during Marquis' career as a New York newspaper columnist in the 1920s and '30s. Allegedly tapping out stories at night by leaping from key to key on…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 1996Bloodaxe Books Ltd · 112 pages · 9781852243975
- Hardcover · English · 1986Macmillan Pub Co · 9780025804104
- Other · English · 1996University Press of New England · 103 pages · 9780874517453
PoetryCockroachesArchy (Fictitious character)CatsMehitabel (Fictitious character)Literary collectionsAmerican wit and humorPoetry (poetic works by one author)