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Bagombo Snuff Box by: Kurt Vonnegut, novel cover
Bagombo Snuff Box by: Kurt Vonnegut, novel cover

Bagombo Snuff Box (ISBN 0-399-14505-2) is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1999. The book contains previously-unconnected short fiction, most of it written in the 1950s, that did not appear in Vonnegut's previous collection, Welcome to the Monkey House. The collection includes:

  • Thanasphere
  • Mnemonics
  • Any Reasonable Offer
  • The Package
  • The No-Talent Kid
  • Poor Little Rich Town
  • Souvenir
  • The Cruise of the Jolly Roger
  • Custom-made Bride
  • Ambitious Sophomore
  • Bagombo Snuff Box
  • The Powder-Blue Dragon
  • A Present for Big Saint Nick
  • Unpaid Consultant
  • Der Arme Dolmetscher
  • The Boy Who Hated Girls
  • This Son of Mine
  • A Night for Love
  • Find Me a Dream
  • Runaways
  • 2BR02B
  • Lovers Anonymous
  • Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp

As well as Vonnegut's own reflection over the time he spent and the man he was when writing these short called; this section is called "Coda to My Career as a Writer for Periodicals".

Works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Novels 1950s: Player Piano (1952) • The Sirens of Titan (1959)
1960s: Mother Night (1961) • Cat's Cradle (1963) • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965) • Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade (1969)
1970s: Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye, Blue Monday (1973) • Slapstick or Lonesome No More (1976) • Jailbird (1979)
1980s: Deadeye Dick (1982) • Galápagos (1985) • Bluebeard (1987)
1990s: Hocus Pocus (1990) • Timequake (1996)
Short story collections Canary in a Cathouse (1961) • Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) • Bagombo Snuff Box (1999)
Collected essays Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) • Palm Sunday, An Autobiographical Collage (1981) • Fates Worse than Death, An Autobiographical Collage (1990) • God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (2001) • A Man Without a Country (2005)
Plays Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) • Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus Five: A Space Fantasy (1972) • Make Up Your Mind (1993) • Miss Temptation (1993) • L'Histoire du Soldat (1993)
Adaptations
Stage Welcome to the Monkey House (1970, 1974) • Sirens of Titan (1974) • Cat's Cradle (1976) • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979) • Breakfast of Champions (1984) • Requiem (Stone, Time, and Elements: A Humanist Requiem) (1988) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1996)
Film Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) • Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) • Next Door (1975) • Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) • Mother Night (1996) • Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Television Displaced Person (1958, 1985) • EPICAC (1974, 1992) • Who Am I This Time? (1982) • All the King's Horses (1991) • Next Door (1991) • The Euphio Question (1991) • Fortitude (1992) • The Foster Portfolio (1992) • More Stately Mansions (1992) • Harrison Bergeron (1995)
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