{"product_id":"the-lost-algonquin-round-table-humor-fiction-journalism-criticism-and-poetry-from-americas-most-famous-literary-circle","title":"The Lost Algonquin Round Table: Humor, Fiction, Journalism, Criticism and Poetry From America's Most Famous Literary Circle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Legendary Writers of the \"Vicious Circle\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollected Together For the First Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Algonquin was a refuge for the brightest authors, editors, critics, columnists, artists, financiers, composers, directors, producers and actors of the times. The dining-room corner was a hot bed of raconteurs and conversationalists.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Harpo Marx\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Jazz Age New York City, no literary lights burned more brightly than those of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. Now between covers for the first time is a collection of writing by 16 members of the group, an all-star gathering that took 90 years to come together. Many of these pieces have never been published before; plucked from private family collections and \"lost\" pieces from obscure periodicals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e● Humor pieces by Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun, Frank Sullivan and Donald Ogden Stewart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e● Criticism from Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e● Short fiction by Laurence Stallings and Pulitzer Prize-winners Edna Ferber and Margaret Leech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e● Journalism from Alexander Woollcott, Ruth Hale and Deems Taylor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e● Poetry by Adams, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker and John V. A. Weaver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by Nat Benchley.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nat Benchley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46053180866629,"sku":"BS-LIB-151514","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9781440151514-HD.jpg?v=1792361184","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/en\/products\/the-lost-algonquin-round-table-humor-fiction-journalism-criticism-and-poetry-from-americas-most-famous-literary-circle","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}