How to do things right : the revelations of a fussy man : three incomparable books of wit, charm, and wisdom finally available in one volume / as revised, edited and enhanced by L. Rust Hills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hills, L. Rust, author.

Contributor:

Mathews, Harry, 1930-2017, former owner.

David R. Godine, Publisher, publisher.

Harry Mathews Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life.

Hills, L. Rust.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 259 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : David R. Godine, 1993.

Summary:

Obsessively-detailed, and very funny, instructions on nearly everything you might be doing wrong. Here's a collection of three titles in one volume ( How to Do Things Right, How to be Good, and How to Retire at 41 ) that will have you laughing out loud, thinking hard, and at least temporarily rearranging your frazzled life. L. Rust Hills is wise, witty, and very, very fussy. His mission is to create order out of chaos, to make the arcane methodology of fussiness respectable, to elevate, and even ennoble, those fleeting instincts we all harbor to get our lives in order.

Contents:

bk. 1. How to do some particular things particularly

bk. 2. How to retire at forty-one

bk. 3. How to be good.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.

Harry Mathews Collection copy has undated, handwritten letter from the author to Harry Mathews laid in. Also laid in, a four page booklet about the author after his death.

Contains:

Hills, L. Rust. How to do some particular things particularly. 1993.

Hills, L. Rust. How to retire at forty-one. 1993.

Hills, L. Rust. How to be good. 1993.

ISBN:

0879239689

0879239697

OCLC:

27812157