Without a stitch in time
Subtitle: a selection of the best humorous short pieces
By: by Peter de Vries
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 1974
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780575017276
Subjects: English Short stories
Notes: This collection originally published: Boston [Mass.] : Little, 1972. - 'Most of the material in this book was originally published in "The New Yorker"' - title page verso.
Table of contents: title: A hard day at the office; title: Slice of life; title: Flesh and the devil; title: Mud in your eye; title: Afternoon of a faun; title: Interior with figures; title: Good boy; title: Tulip; title: Every leave that falls; title: Compulsion; title: Scene; title: A crying need; title: In defense of self-pity; or, Prelude to Löwenbräu; title: The high ground; or, Look, Ma, I'm explicating; title: Independent voter at twilight; title: The conversational ball; title: Adventures of a people buff; title: Heart; title: Requiem for a noun; or, Intruder in the dusk; title: The house of mirth; title: Split-level; title: Till the sands of desert grow cold; title: From there to infinity; title: Overture; title: Reuben, Reuben; title: Touch and go; title: Fall guy; title: You and who else; title: Nobody's fool; title: Block; title: Double or nothing; title: Journey to the center of the room; title: Different cultural levels eat here; title: The man read Waugh; title: The art of self-dramatization; or, Forward from Schrecklichkeit; title: The children's hour; or, Hopscotch and soda; title: The irony of it all; title: Laughter in the basement; title: Part of the family picture; title: You know me Alice; title: A walk in the country; or, How to keep fit to be tied; title: The last of the bluenoses; title: Scones and stones; title: Forever panting; title: James Thurber: the comic Prufrock; title: Exploring inner space.