With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. The antics of these two immortal characters are now made available for the first time in their original order of publication in this unique, comprehensive collection, which features many poems never before reprinted.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
Don Marquis’s famous fictional insect appeared in his newspaper columns from 1916 into the 1930s, and he has delighted generations of readers ever since. Reincarnated as the lowest creatures on the social scale, they prowl the rowdy streets of New York City in between the world wars. A selection of the best of the hilarious free-verse poems by the irreverent cockroach poet Archy and his alley-cat pal Mehitabel. These free-verse poems, which first appeared in Marquis's New York newspaper columns, revolve around the escapades of Archy, the philosophical cockroach who was once a poet, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was once Cleopatra. As recognized, adventure as capably as experience not quite lesson, amusement, as capably as concord can be gotten by just checking out a ebook Archy And. Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mark Twain.
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