Bagombo Snuff Box

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Bagombo Snuff Box
Cover of Bagombo Snuff Box
Author	Kurt Vonnegut
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre(s)	Anthology
Publication date	1999
ISBN	ISBN 0-399-14505-2

Bagombo Snuff Box is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1999. The book contains previously published, but uncollected short fiction that did not appear in Vonnegut's previous collection, Welcome to the Monkey House. Though almost all the stories were initially written and published in the 1950s, for this collection, Vonnegut re-wrote three stories with which he had been dissatified. These rewritten stories include "The Powder Blue Dragon" and "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp".

[edit] The Collection

• "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"
• "Coda to My Career as a Writer for Periodicals" - this is Vonnegut's own reflection over the time he spent and the man he was when writing these short stories.
  

v • d • e Works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Novels Player Piano (1952) · The Sirens of Titan (1959) · Mother Night (1961) · Cat's Cradle (1963) · God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) · Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) · Breakfast of Champions (1973) · Slapstick (1976) · Jailbird (1979) · Deadeye Dick (1982) · Galápagos (1985) · Bluebeard (1987) · Hocus Pocus (1990) · Timequake (1997) Story collections Canary in a Cathouse (1961) · Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) · Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) · Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Collected essays Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) · Palm Sunday (1981) · Fates Worse than Death (1990) · God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) · A Man Without a Country (2005) Scripts Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) · Between Time and Timbuktu (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) · Harrison Bergeron (1995) · Mother Night (1996) · Breakfast of Champions (1999) Television Displaced Person (1958, 1985) · Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) · 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)