Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley
Sixty-three essays on a variety of topics as wide apart as Family Life in America, Opera Synopses, Bigamy, International Finance and many more, Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley...
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Sixty-three essays on a variety of topics as wide apart as Family
Life in America, Opera Synopses, Bigamy, International Finance and
many more, Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley strangely enough
does not touch upon romance at all! However, these delightful notes
provide hours of browsing pleasure for young and old readers alike.
Robert Benchley was a well-known humorist and newspaper columnist,
radio and television presenter, actor, scriptwriter and
broadcaster. He is also credited with creating the first ever
television entertainment show and one of his iconic short films,
How to Sleep won an Academy Award in 1936. Love Conquers All is a
collection of short pieces which were published in various
newspapers and journals like the The New York Tribune, Life, The
New York World and several other consolidated press agencies.
Benchley's tongue-in-cheek humor and his zany commentary on the
world around him have continued to delight readers since they were
first compiled in book form in 1922. The quirky illustrations by
the famous cartoonist Gluyas Williams add to the book's appeal.
Some of the essays in the volume include titles such as Rules and
Suggestions for Watching Auction Bridge, Do Insects Think? What to
Do While the Family is Away, When not in Rome, Why do as the Romans
Did? Welcome Home – And Shut Up! Advice to Writers and a host of
other topics. Between 1919-29, Benchley and other greats of
American humor formed the famous Algonquin Round Table Club. The
members included Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, George
Kaufmann, Harpo Marx and many others whose wacky takes on life
continue to delight readers even today. The Algonquin Club which
met regularly at the historic Algonquin Hotel in New York. The
members whose numbers expanded to include literary greats like Edna
Ferber and Heywood Broun. The meetings resulted in the founding of
the New Yorker magazine and even today, all guests at the hotel
receive free copies of the magazine. The members who referred to
themselves as the Vicious Circle had a great influence over
literature and journalism of the era. Fitzgerald and Hemingway were
also greatly influenced by the ideas of the Vicious Circle. Today
the Round Table restaurant at the Algonquin is a mecca for
literature buffs. Benchley's style is upper-class, genteel,
literary and is characterized by extensive puns and word play.
However, some of his pieces are distinctly of the “cracker-barrel”
variety of fun, relying on exaggerations, slapstick and dialects.
He had a big influence on humorists ranging from James Thurber to
Dave Barry. He wrote more than 600 essays and short pieces which
were compiled into more than a dozen volumes, which continue to be
published by major publishers. His short films are becoming more
and more popular today. An amusing addition to your humor
collection!
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