Without Feathers
This article is about the book by Woody Allen. For the album by The Stills, see Without Feathers (album).
 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 978-0-394-49743-3 (hardcover edition) |
| OCLC | 1217497 |
| 818/.5/407 | |
| LC Class | PS3551.L44 W5 |
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 essays and also features two one act plays, Death and God.
Title meaning
The title "Without Feathers" is a reference to Emily Dickinson's poem "'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]
Contents
- Selections from The Allen Notebooks
- Examining Psychic Phenomena
- A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets
- The Scrolls
- Lovborg's Women Considered
- The Whore of Mensa[2]
- Death (A Play)
- The Early Essays
- A Brief Yet Helpful Guide to Civil Disobedience
- Match Wits With Inspector Ford
- The Irish Genius
- God (A Play)
- Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts
- But Soft. Real Soft.
- If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists
- No Kaddish for Weinstein
- Fine Times: An Oral Memoir
- Slang Origins