My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
by Robert Benchley

My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew
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Author: Robert Benchley
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1977-06-06
ISBN: 0884113035
Number of pages: 361
Publisher: Amereon Ltd

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Book Review: a cottage classic
Summary: 5 Stars

I recall this book from our cottage forty years ago and still have it. These are wonderful flights of wit and fancy from one of the great humorous writers. I've read many of these essays and stories dozens of times now and they never grow stale. How McGregor lost a locomotive on the way home, fur-bearing trout, and the dangers of bass singing are just a few of the topics covered.

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Table of Contents:

  • The Lost Locomotive
  • "Take the Witness!"
  • The New Strokes
  • Contributors to This Issue
  • Dog Libel
  • The Rope Trick Explained
  • Toddling Along
  • No Pullmans, Please!
  • Mysteries from the Sky
  • The Evil Eye
  • Stop Those Hiccoughs!
  • Bad News
  • Isn't It Remarkable?
  • Do Dreams Go By Opposites?
  • My White Suit
  • Wear-Out-a-Shoe Week
  • Nature's Noises
  • Owl Data
  • As They Say in French: Other Times, Other Customs
  • Help!
  • Nature's Prizes
  • Our Noisy Ghosts
  • Movie Boners
  • Let's Not Dance This!
  • The French They Are--
  • Duck, Brothers!
  • What--No Budapest?
  • MacGregor for Ataman!
  • Do We Sleep Enough?
  • High Life Among the Birds
  • Do You Make These mistakes?
  • The Word "Three"
  • Read and Eat
  • Talking Dogs
  • My Trouble
  • Hollywood's Loss
  • Lights, Please!
  • Did You Know That--
  • Mutiny on the "Bounty"
  • The Dangers of Bass-Singing
  • Lucky World
  • "Name, Please?"
  • Eat More Worry
  • Keep a Log
  • Lost Youth
  • The Ice-Breaker
  • The Piano-Playing Record
  • Fun with Animals
  • The Children's Hour
  • Back to Mozart
  • Frog-Farming
  • My Orchard
  • Hedgehogs Wanted
  • Skol!
  • Comes the Eclipse
  • Autographs for Sale
  • Health and Work
  • Experience Meeting
  • Child-Holding
  • Rule of Thumb
  • Quick Quotations
  • Spy Scares
  • Mistaken Notions
  • Maxims from the Chinese
  • Excelsior!
  • The Rule of 87
  • Jolly Good Fellows
  • Taking up the Cudgels
  • Special Sale!
  • All Aboard for Dementia Praecox
  • One Minute, Please
  • Who Did It?
  • Prodigal Sea-Lions
  • London's Oldest Rink
  • Robot Rats
  • End of the Chanticleer!
  • Waiting for Bad News
  • Judgment-Day Rehearsal
  • What to Loll In
  • Blizzard Hysteria
  • The Moth Invasion
  • Don't Get Lost!
  • Notes
  • Artist's Model Succumbs!
  • Those Dicta
  • The Vigil
  • Haircut, Please!
  • Flying Flea
  • Phobias
  • The Camel Market
  • The Curse Shortage
  • First Aid
  • No More Nightmares
  • Ominous Announcements
  • "East, West, Home's Best!"
  • No More Bananas
  • You Mr. Grown-Up!
  • Sluggards, Ahoy!
  • Sweet Solitude
  • Penguin Feud
  • Coffee Versus Gin
  • The Early Worm
  • Truffle Poisoning
  • My Untold Story

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