This beloved illustrated classic tells the tale of Archy, a philosophical cockroach, and Mehitabel, a cat in her ninth life. Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis. Marquis's satirical free-verse poems, which first appeared in his New York newspaper columns in 1916, revolve around the escapades of Archy, a philosophical cockroach who was a poet in a previous life, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was once Cleopatra. Reincarnated as the lowest creatures on the social scale, they prowl the rowdy streets of New York City in between the world wars, and Archy records their experiences and observations on the boss's typewriter late at night. First published in 1927, Archy and Mehitabel has become a celebrated part of the twentieth-century American literary canon.
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Donald Robert Perry "Don" Marquis was een krantencolumnist, toneelschrijver, romanschrijver en dichter. Hij is vooral bekend om zijn vrije vers "Archy and Mehitabel" en zijn anti-prohibition toneelstuk "Old Soak". Zijn geschriften verkennen vaak personages aan de rand van de samenleving en vinden zowel humor als tragedie in het alledaagse. Marquis bezat een onderscheidende stem die esprit combineerde met sociaal commentaar.





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