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Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Vonnegut, K.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vonnegut, Kurt.
- Series:
- Dell book ; 1478.
- Dell book ; 1478
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Science fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 308 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dell Publishing Company, 1970.
- Summary:
- These short masterpieces are a collection of tender stories of love, incisive essays on human greed and misery, and imaginative tales of futuristic happenings that reveal Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor, extraordinary creative vision, and versatility.
- A collection of twenty-five short works by the American author written between 1950 and 1968 and originally printed in a wide range of publications including "The Atlantic Monthly," "Esquire," and "Ladies' Home Journal."
- Contents:
- Where I live
- Harrison Bergeron
- Who am I this time?
- Welcome to the monkey house
- Long walk to forever
- The Foster portfolio
- Miss Temptation
- All the king's horses
- Tom Edison's shaggy dog
- New dictionary
- Next door
- More stately mansions
- The Hyannis Port story
- D.P.
- Report on the Barnhouse Effect
- The euphio question
- Go back to your precious wife and son
- Deer in the works
- The lie
- Unready to wear
- The kid nobody could handle
- The manned missiles
- EPICAC
- Adam
- Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Third Dell printing: May 1970.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vonnegut, Kurt. Welcome to the monkey house.
- ISBN:
- 0440194784
- 9780440194781
- OCLC:
- 826785
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