Will Cuppy

Little known facts about some very famous men and women in history, including Cheops, Hatshepsut, Pericles, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Attila The Hun, Charlemagne, Lady Godiva, Lucrezia Borgia, Philip II, Louis XIV, Madame Du Barry, Peter The Great, Catherine The Great, Frederick The Great, William the Conqueror, Henry VII, Elizabeth, George III, Leif Ericsson, Christopher Columbus, Montezuma, Captain John Smith, and Miles Standish.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

Humorous essays poke fun at the natural world, extinct animals, pet snakes, and the noises of fish

How to Become Extinct

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Will Cuppy was one of the original staff of Harold Ross’s New Yorker and the author of How to Be a Hermit and How to Become Extinct. He is also, says P.G.Wodehouse in his introduction, “the author of the best thing said about Pekingese, viz. ‘I don’t know why they should look so conceited. They’re no better than we are.'” This quip sounds the characteristic Cuppy note: concisely expressed misanthropy, a.k.a. pith and vinegar. About the title: “I grant you there are plenty of old-fashioned and pretty ineffective ways to tell your friends from the Apes,” confesses the author. “What could be simpler, for instance, when you are at the zoo? The Apes are in cages. Yes, but when you are not at the zoo, what then?” “Then” is when we need to be taken by Mr. Cuppy’s incomparable hand, which, unlike the chimpanzee’s, is clean and has an opposable thumb.

How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes

"How to Be a Hermit" by Will Cuppy. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

How to Be a Hermit

Fred Feldkamp

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody ... Edited by Fred Feldkamp. Drawings by William Steig

In these 40 brief, witty essays, Will Cuppy, a perennially perturbed hermit who thought life was out to get him, turns his unflinching attention on those members of the animal kingdom whose habits are disagreeable, whose appearances are repellent, and whose continued existence need not necessarily be a foregone conclusion.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody. [With Illustrations.].

How to Get from January to December

A survey of the animal kingdom in which the nocturnal and tunneling wombat is awarded the greatest praise. Will Cuppy was something like the Larry David of the mid-20th century. From his perch as a staff writer at The New Yorker, Cuppy observed the world and found a great deal that annoyed him. This collection of essays on animals includes "Birds Who Can't Even Fly," "Optional Insects," "Octopuses and Those Things", and "How to Swat a Fly," which codifies the essentials in ten hilarious principles. And three essays on wombats. Perfect reading for the perplexed, befuddled, and perpetually irritated.

How to Attract the Wombat

A survey of life on earth, in all its variety and pagentry, by a very annoyed humorist. From early man, the Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, to irascible observations on mankind and the animal kingdom today (including "Birds I Could Do Without"), Will Cuppy, a perennially perturbed hermit, is your guide in these are very funny essays. For eight years, from 1921 to 1929, Will Cuppy lived alone on Jones Island, off Long Island's South Shore. From that outpost, he gained a reputation for his factual but funny magazine articles and wrote the book, How to be a Hermit, his first bestseller. His last, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, was left unfinished after Cuppy's death in 1949 and has become a classic of American humor. In between (among other titles) was this very funny collection. First published in 1931, the subjects include "What I Hate About Spring," "Awful Mammals," and "Why Be a Rhinoceros?" Great for anyone who loves classic American humor.

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