Without Feathers
 First edition | |
| Author | Woody Allen |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 12 May 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 210 pp (hardcover edition) & 224 pp (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-394-49743-3 (hardcover edition) |
| OCLC | 1217497 |
| 818/.5/407 | |
| LC Class | PS3551.L44 W5 |
Without Feathers (1975, ISBN 0-394-49743-0) is a collection of humorous essays and two one-act plays, Death and God, by Woody Allen. It is one of Allen's best-known books, spending four months on the New York Times Best Seller List.
Title meaning
[edit]The title Without Feathers is a reference to Emily Dickinson's poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers", reflecting Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness. The poem is mentioned in one of the stories.[1]
Contents
[edit]- Selections from The Allen Notebooks
- Examining Psychic Phenomena
- A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets
- The Scrolls
- Lovborg's Women Considered
- The Whore of Mensa [2]
- Death (A Play)
- The Early Essays
- A Brief Yet Helpful Guide to Civil Disobedience
- Match Wits With Inspector Ford
- The Irish Genius
- God (A Play)
- Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts
- But Soft. Real Soft.
- If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists
- No Kaddish for Weinstein
- Fine Times: An Oral Memoir
- Slang Origins
Notes and references
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