Without Feathers

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This article is about the book by Woody Allen. For the album by The Stills, see Without Feathers (album).
Without Feathers

Cover of 1996 Ballantine paperback
Author Woody Allen
Language English
Publisher Random House
Publication date 12 May 1975
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 210 pp (hardcover edition) & 224 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN ISBN 978-0394497433 (hardcover edition)

Woody Allen's Without Feathers (1975, ISBN 0-394-49743-0) is one of his best-known literary pieces. The book spent 4 months on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book is a collection of short stories and also features two one act plays, Death and God.

[edit] Explanation of the novel's title

The name is essentially a play on Emily Dickinson's words "Hope is the thing with feathers", reflecting Woody Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness. The Dickinson poem is mentioned in one of the stories in the collection.[1]

[edit] Contents

  1. Selections from The Allen Notebooks
  2. Examining Psychic Phenomena
  3. A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets
  4. The Scrolls
  5. Lovborg's Women Considered
  6. The Whore of Mensa
  7. The Early Essays
  8. A Brief Yet Helpful Guide to Civil Disobedience
  9. Match Wits With Inspector Ford
  10. The Irish Genius
  11. Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts
  12. But Soft. Real Soft.
  13. If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists
  14. No Kaddish for Weinstein
  15. Fine Times: An Oral Memoir
  16. Slang Origins

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ In 'Selections from the Allen Notebooks,' 9.
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