My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew [Hardcover]

Robert Benchley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 6, 1977

Table of Contents:

• The Lost Locomotive
• "Take the Witness!"
• The New Strokes
• Contributors to This Issue
• Dog Libel
• The Rope Trick Explained
• Toddling Along
• No Pullmans, Please!
• Mysteries from the Sky
• The Evil Eye
• Stop Those Hiccoughs!
• Bad News
• Isn't It Remarkable?
• Do Dreams Go By Opposites?
• My White Suit
• Wear-Out-a-Shoe Week
• Nature's Noises
• Owl Data
• As They Say in French: Other Times, Other Customs
• Help!
• Nature's Prizes
• Our Noisy Ghosts
• Movie Boners
• Let's Not Dance This!
• The French They Are--
• Duck, Brothers!
• What--No Budapest?
• MacGregor for Ataman!
• Do We Sleep Enough?
• High Life Among the Birds
• Do You Make These mistakes?
• The Word "Three"
• Read and Eat
• Talking Dogs
• My Trouble
• Hollywood's Loss
• Lights, Please!
• Did You Know That--
• Mutiny on the "Bounty"
• The Dangers of Bass-Singing
• Lucky World
• "Name, Please?"
• Eat More Worry
• Keep a Log
• Lost Youth
• The Ice-Breaker
• The Piano-Playing Record
• Fun with Animals
• The Children's Hour
• Back to Mozart
• Frog-Farming
• My Orchard
• Hedgehogs Wanted
• Skol!
• Comes the Eclipse
• Autographs for Sale
• Health and Work
• Experience Meeting
• Child-Holding
• Rule of Thumb
• Quick Quotations
• Spy Scares
• Mistaken Notions
• Maxims from the Chinese
• Excelsior!
• The Rule of 87
• Jolly Good Fellows
• Taking up the Cudgels
• Special Sale!
• All Aboard for Dementia Praecox
• One Minute, Please
• Who Did It?
• Prodigal Sea-Lions
• London's Oldest Rink
• Robot Rats
• End of the Chanticleer!
• Waiting for Bad News
• Judgment-Day Rehearsal
• What to Loll In
• Blizzard Hysteria
• The Moth Invasion
• Don't Get Lost!
• Notes
• Artist's Model Succumbs!
• Those Dicta
• The Vigil
• Haircut, Please!
• Flying Flea
• Phobias
• The Camel Market
• The Curse Shortage
• First Aid
• No More Nightmares
• Ominous Announcements
• "East, West, Home's Best!"
• No More Bananas
• You Mr. Grown-Up!
• Sluggards, Ahoy!
• Sweet Solitude
• Penguin Feud
• Coffee Versus Gin
• The Early Worm
• Truffle Poisoning
• My Untold Story

Product Details

• Hardcover: 361 pages
• Publisher: Amereon Ltd (June 6, 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884113035
• ISBN-13: 978-0884113034
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #805,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Humor, July 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (Hardcover)

I have an old Penguin paperback which I constantly carry in my purse. Benchley has been my lunch companion on numerous occasions, and he never fails to please. One of the greatest humorists America has ever produced, in the same league with Mark Twain and James Thurber.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book offers great insight into the ironies of life, November 13, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (Hardcover)

This book offers an array of emotions and feelings in a quirky little package. From the first time I picked up this book from the spare bedroom at my grandparents' old home, I knew I'd found a rare jem of a book. As my brother told me I was "a monster of a girl," a kept reading and reading until Sherman, the fiend of the Sea, chased me to the lake. These are the kind of feelings that this book brings out in people. From its terse discussion on the history of Budapest, to its harsh realization that there really were more than two composers named "Mozart," I believe all will find this an enjoyable experience!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a cottage classic, January 27, 2005

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Douglas Gifford (Gananoque, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (Hardcover)

I recall this book from our cottage forty years ago and still have it. These are wonderful flights of wit and fancy from one of the great humorous writers. I've read many of these essays and stories dozens of times now and they never grow stale. How McGregor lost a locomotive on the way home, fur-bearing trout, and the dangers of bass singing are just a few of the topics covered.