This Simian World - Softcover

Day, Clarence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995688303 ISBN 13: 9780995688308

Publisher: Singing Organ-Grinder Books, 2016

Synopsis

How would the world have fared had cats, ants, elephants ... been in charge? An anti-heroic Darwinian satire on the origins of human nature, by a colleague of S.J. Perelman, James Thurber, Robert Benchley and the Marx Brothers. New, corrected OCR with the author’s illustrations.

“A wise and delightful book” – Dean Acheson (Truman’s Secretary of State, 1949-53)

“The monkey in me has never been more clearly perceived” – E.B. White (Charlotte’s Web, Strunk & White)

“If I had never done anything but publish Clarence Day, I would be satisfied” – Harold Ross (creator of The New Yorker)

“A little masterpiece” – The Liberator (American Communist magazine, 1921)

“A brilliant satire on the foibles of the human race” – Kirkus Reviews (1936)

“Still relevant to an understanding of the human animal in New York, Washington or anywhere else” – Alfred A. Knopf (Day’s publisher, in 1981)

72 pages, 15,000 words

Edition details

• Publisher: Singing Organ-Grinder Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995688303
• ISBN 13: 9780995688308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72