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The Annotated Archy and ­Mehitabel
Penguin Classics
By Don Marquis, Michael Sims (Introduction by)

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Paperback, 400 pages
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United States, 1 August 2006

Don Marquis (1878-1937) was a newspaper columnist, poet, novelist, dramatist, and popular author.


Michael Sims is the author most recently of In the Womb: Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries); he is also the author of Apollo's Fire: A Journey through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts. For Penguin Classics he also edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel and Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, and he is currently editing The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime. He has written for many periodicals, from the Washington Post to New Statesman.


The Annotated Archy and MehitabelIntroduction by Michael Sims

Suggestions for Further Reading

A Note on the Text


The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel


1916


Expression Is the Need

Just Cockroaches

Something to Say

Simplified Spelling

Hell

Freddy Is No More

Up or Down the Scale

Raise in Salary

An Easy Mark

Grind Down the Laboring Man

Just for This, You Go in Agate, Archy

Desk All Cleaned Up

Capitals

Why Not Commit Suicide

Writing All By Itself

We Rushed Forward and Swatted

My Naked Soul

On My Recent Demise

Ballade of the Under Side

Aeroplane

Back to the Starting Point

Lightning Bug

The Next Line

Be Beautiful

Cleopatra

The Queens I Have Been

Unpunctuated Gink

Butting These Keys with My Head

Drunken Hornet

Cheer Up Cheer Up

White Powder

My Ultimatum

Swiss Cheese

Katydid

Suicide Club, Part 1

Suicide Club, Part 2

Suicide Club, Part 3

Suicide Club, Part 4

Suicide Club, Part 5

Killing Off the Sparrows

My Last Name

Where Is Archy?

Arrest That Statue

Happy Inspirations


1917


That Cockroach Glide

Archy Gets His Statue Made

Statue of Myself

Going to War of Just Going to Hell

More or Less Neutral

Between Him and His Masterpiece

War Times

Agate for You, Archy, Just to Curb Your Pride

The Story of Mehitabel the Cat

A Pampered Kitten

Mehitabel the Cat Has Struck

It Was Beer

A Saucer Full of Beer

The Cat Is Sore at Me

Comma Boss Comma

Lawn

Workman Spare That Bathtub

Washington D C

Archy in Washington

To Help Win the War

Out of the Cockroach Body

A German Periscope

Patience Worth

Beware the Demon Rum

Sounds Like a Jolly Gang

Interest in Science

He Cried into His Beer

Prudence

Too Romantic to Work

I Knew a Ghost

That Ghost That Loafs

Superior

Sad Looking Ghost

Bore His Way Out


1918


Literary Slave No Longer

Poetry Is

Window Box War Gardens

The Crippled Cockroach

We Suspect Archy

Cockroachism

Named after the Washington Arch

Aeroplane Mail

Assisting at a Suicide

Not a Fish

At the Zoo

Prohibition Rushes Toward Us

Income Tax Slacker

The Raiding Habit

A Loyal Allied Cootie

Dialogue among the Plants

Ye Instead of The

One Thing That Makes Crickets So Melancholy

Sphinx

Reports of My Exit

Glorious Footfulness

Falling Upwards

Headgear

Smile When You Ride on the Subway

A Genuine Quip

Tobacco Fund

The Advice of Your Little Friend

Jane Gad Fly

The Influenza

A Tall Story

Chief Janitor

I Saw Archy

Peace Conference

More and More at Sea

Poet Overboard

Freedom of the Seas

Two Old Men

Passing the Bock

The Former Kaiser

Abdication Underneath the Bough

Who Pays for All This

The Former Czar


1919


At the Tomb of Napoleon

Preliminary Peace

No Water Bug

Safer in America

An Interview with Mehitabel

No Beer No Work

Royal Blood and Anarchy

I Left There Too Soon

Classed with Fleas

A Home among the Casks

Help I Can Give the Worried Housewife

In Spite of H Dash Double L

Galoshes for Cockroaches

A Poem in the Kipling Manner

Put Me in the Movies

The Best Thing You Have Done Yet

Archy Is Still on Strike

Grin and Beer It

The Archy Strike

Call Archy Back

An Injunction

Archy Gets a 50 Per Cent Increase

Thank You for the Advice

Darned Little Justice

Archy Gets Restless Again

A Plum Plan

Trying to Ruin Me

To Settle the Controversy

Rheumatism

This Monster Man

The Cat Show


1920


Archy Is Ill

The Anti Cockroach Conspiracy

A Threat

The Shimmie

A Former Doughboy

Pretty Soft for You

A Little Waterbug

An Archy Drive

Sentimental about Birds

A Sad Time Dieting

Crazy as a Bed Bug

Random Thoughts by Archy

I Saw a Football Game


1921


No Privacy

This Lenin Person

Organizing the Insects

The Cockroach Its Life History

My Private Comet

Dodo Birds and Cubist Posters

To Become Grasshoppers

Ku Klux Klam

O City of Angels

Archy Turns Highbrow for a Minute

Krew Krux Kranks

Cursed Fly Swatters


1922


The Cheerful Oyster

Talking to a Moth

Ground for Optimism

Waiting for a Vacant Body

Interviewed the Mummy

Archy to the Radio Fans

Once Every Seventeen Years

The Truth about the Insects

Warty Bliggens

Strange Bedfellows

My Favorite Poem

Always the Lady

Archy's Own Short Course in Entomology

The Patagonian Penguin

Be Glad You're Not a Tomcat

The Most Luckless Creature

Low Brow

Song of Mehitabel

Forgets His Littleness

Business Matters

Fairies

I Knuckle Under

The Dactyl Droops

Investigating Her Morals

Small Talk

Shakespeare and I

Thank You for the Mittens

Archy Is Excited

The Futility of Literature


Notes

Acknowledgments

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Product Description

Don Marquis (1878-1937) was a newspaper columnist, poet, novelist, dramatist, and popular author.


Michael Sims is the author most recently of In the Womb: Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries); he is also the author of Apollo's Fire: A Journey through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts. For Penguin Classics he also edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel and Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, and he is currently editing The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime. He has written for many periodicals, from the Washington Post to New Statesman.


The Annotated Archy and MehitabelIntroduction by Michael Sims

Suggestions for Further Reading

A Note on the Text


The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel


1916


Expression Is the Need

Just Cockroaches

Something to Say

Simplified Spelling

Hell

Freddy Is No More

Up or Down the Scale

Raise in Salary

An Easy Mark

Grind Down the Laboring Man

Just for This, You Go in Agate, Archy

Desk All Cleaned Up

Capitals

Why Not Commit Suicide

Writing All By Itself

We Rushed Forward and Swatted

My Naked Soul

On My Recent Demise

Ballade of the Under Side

Aeroplane

Back to the Starting Point

Lightning Bug

The Next Line

Be Beautiful

Cleopatra

The Queens I Have Been

Unpunctuated Gink

Butting These Keys with My Head

Drunken Hornet

Cheer Up Cheer Up

White Powder

My Ultimatum

Swiss Cheese

Katydid

Suicide Club, Part 1

Suicide Club, Part 2

Suicide Club, Part 3

Suicide Club, Part 4

Suicide Club, Part 5

Killing Off the Sparrows

My Last Name

Where Is Archy?

Arrest That Statue

Happy Inspirations


1917


That Cockroach Glide

Archy Gets His Statue Made

Statue of Myself

Going to War of Just Going to Hell

More or Less Neutral

Between Him and His Masterpiece

War Times

Agate for You, Archy, Just to Curb Your Pride

The Story of Mehitabel the Cat

A Pampered Kitten

Mehitabel the Cat Has Struck

It Was Beer

A Saucer Full of Beer

The Cat Is Sore at Me

Comma Boss Comma

Lawn

Workman Spare That Bathtub

Washington D C

Archy in Washington

To Help Win the War

Out of the Cockroach Body

A German Periscope

Patience Worth

Beware the Demon Rum

Sounds Like a Jolly Gang

Interest in Science

He Cried into His Beer

Prudence

Too Romantic to Work

I Knew a Ghost

That Ghost That Loafs

Superior

Sad Looking Ghost

Bore His Way Out


1918


Literary Slave No Longer

Poetry Is

Window Box War Gardens

The Crippled Cockroach

We Suspect Archy

Cockroachism

Named after the Washington Arch

Aeroplane Mail

Assisting at a Suicide

Not a Fish

At the Zoo

Prohibition Rushes Toward Us

Income Tax Slacker

The Raiding Habit

A Loyal Allied Cootie

Dialogue among the Plants

Ye Instead of The

One Thing That Makes Crickets So Melancholy

Sphinx

Reports of My Exit

Glorious Footfulness

Falling Upwards

Headgear

Smile When You Ride on the Subway

A Genuine Quip

Tobacco Fund

The Advice of Your Little Friend

Jane Gad Fly

The Influenza

A Tall Story

Chief Janitor

I Saw Archy

Peace Conference

More and More at Sea

Poet Overboard

Freedom of the Seas

Two Old Men

Passing the Bock

The Former Kaiser

Abdication Underneath the Bough

Who Pays for All This

The Former Czar


1919


At the Tomb of Napoleon

Preliminary Peace

No Water Bug

Safer in America

An Interview with Mehitabel

No Beer No Work

Royal Blood and Anarchy

I Left There Too Soon

Classed with Fleas

A Home among the Casks

Help I Can Give the Worried Housewife

In Spite of H Dash Double L

Galoshes for Cockroaches

A Poem in the Kipling Manner

Put Me in the Movies

The Best Thing You Have Done Yet

Archy Is Still on Strike

Grin and Beer It

The Archy Strike

Call Archy Back

An Injunction

Archy Gets a 50 Per Cent Increase

Thank You for the Advice

Darned Little Justice

Archy Gets Restless Again

A Plum Plan

Trying to Ruin Me

To Settle the Controversy

Rheumatism

This Monster Man

The Cat Show


1920


Archy Is Ill

The Anti Cockroach Conspiracy

A Threat

The Shimmie

A Former Doughboy

Pretty Soft for You

A Little Waterbug

An Archy Drive

Sentimental about Birds

A Sad Time Dieting

Crazy as a Bed Bug

Random Thoughts by Archy

I Saw a Football Game


1921


No Privacy

This Lenin Person

Organizing the Insects

The Cockroach Its Life History

My Private Comet

Dodo Birds and Cubist Posters

To Become Grasshoppers

Ku Klux Klam

O City of Angels

Archy Turns Highbrow for a Minute

Krew Krux Kranks

Cursed Fly Swatters


1922


The Cheerful Oyster

Talking to a Moth

Ground for Optimism

Waiting for a Vacant Body

Interviewed the Mummy

Archy to the Radio Fans

Once Every Seventeen Years

The Truth about the Insects

Warty Bliggens

Strange Bedfellows

My Favorite Poem

Always the Lady

Archy's Own Short Course in Entomology

The Patagonian Penguin

Be Glad You're Not a Tomcat

The Most Luckless Creature

Low Brow

Song of Mehitabel

Forgets His Littleness

Business Matters

Fairies

I Knuckle Under

The Dactyl Droops

Investigating Her Morals

Small Talk

Shakespeare and I

Thank You for the Mittens

Archy Is Excited

The Futility of Literature


Notes

Acknowledgments

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Table of Contents

The Annotated Archy and MehitabelIntroduction by Michael Sims
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text

The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

1916

Expression Is the Need
Just Cockroaches
Something to Say
Simplified Spelling
Hell
Freddy Is No More
Up or Down the Scale
Raise in Salary
An Easy Mark
Grind Down the Laboring Man
Just for This, You Go in Agate, Archy
Desk All Cleaned Up
Capitals
Why Not Commit Suicide
Writing All By Itself
We Rushed Forward and Swatted
My Naked Soul
On My Recent Demise
Ballade of the Under Side
Aeroplane
Back to the Starting Point
Lightning Bug
The Next Line
Be Beautiful
Cleopatra
The Queens I Have Been
Unpunctuated Gink
Butting These Keys with My Head
Drunken Hornet
Cheer Up Cheer Up
White Powder
My Ultimatum
Swiss Cheese
Katydid
Suicide Club, Part 1
Suicide Club, Part 2
Suicide Club, Part 3
Suicide Club, Part 4
Suicide Club, Part 5
Killing Off the Sparrows
My Last Name
Where Is Archy?
Arrest That Statue
Happy Inspirations

1917

That Cockroach Glide
Archy Gets His Statue Made
Statue of Myself
Going to War of Just Going to Hell
More or Less Neutral
Between Him and His Masterpiece
War Times
Agate for You, Archy, Just to Curb Your Pride
The Story of Mehitabel the Cat
A Pampered Kitten
Mehitabel the Cat Has Struck
It Was Beer
A Saucer Full of Beer
The Cat Is Sore at Me
Comma Boss Comma
Lawn
Workman Spare That Bathtub
Washington D C
Archy in Washington
To Help Win the War
Out of the Cockroach Body
A German Periscope
Patience Worth
Beware the Demon Rum
Sounds Like a Jolly Gang
Interest in Science
He Cried into His Beer
Prudence
Too Romantic to Work
I Knew a Ghost
That Ghost That Loafs
Superior
Sad Looking Ghost
Bore His Way Out

1918

Literary Slave No Longer
Poetry Is
Window Box War Gardens
The Crippled Cockroach
We Suspect Archy
Cockroachism
Named after the Washington Arch
Aeroplane Mail
Assisting at a Suicide
Not a Fish
At the Zoo
Prohibition Rushes Toward Us
Income Tax Slacker
The Raiding Habit
A Loyal Allied Cootie
Dialogue among the Plants
Ye Instead of The
One Thing That Makes Crickets So Melancholy
Sphinx
Reports of My Exit
Glorious Footfulness
Falling Upwards
Headgear
Smile When You Ride on the Subway
A Genuine Quip
Tobacco Fund
The Advice of Your Little Friend
Jane Gad Fly
The Influenza
A Tall Story
Chief Janitor
I Saw Archy
Peace Conference
More and More at Sea
Poet Overboard
Freedom of the Seas
Two Old Men
Passing the Bock
The Former Kaiser
Abdication Underneath the Bough
Who Pays for All This
The Former Czar

1919

At the Tomb of Napoleon
Preliminary Peace
No Water Bug
Safer in America
An Interview with Mehitabel
No Beer No Work
Royal Blood and Anarchy
I Left There Too Soon
Classed with Fleas
A Home among the Casks
Help I Can Give the Worried Housewife
In Spite of H Dash Double L
Galoshes for Cockroaches
A Poem in the Kipling Manner
Put Me in the Movies
The Best Thing You Have Done Yet
Archy Is Still on Strike
Grin and Beer It
The Archy Strike
Call Archy Back
An Injunction
Archy Gets a 50 Per Cent Increase
Thank You for the Advice
Darned Little Justice
Archy Gets Restless Again
A Plum Plan
Trying to Ruin Me
To Settle the Controversy
Rheumatism
This Monster Man
The Cat Show

1920

Archy Is Ill
The Anti Cockroach Conspiracy
A Threat
The Shimmie
A Former Doughboy
Pretty Soft for You
A Little Waterbug
An Archy Drive
Sentimental about Birds
A Sad Time Dieting
Crazy as a Bed Bug
Random Thoughts by Archy
I Saw a Football Game

1921

No Privacy
This Lenin Person
Organizing the Insects
The Cockroach Its Life History
My Private Comet
Dodo Birds and Cubist Posters
To Become Grasshoppers
Ku Klux Klam
O City of Angels
Archy Turns Highbrow for a Minute
Krew Krux Kranks
Cursed Fly Swatters

1922

The Cheerful Oyster
Talking to a Moth
Ground for Optimism
Waiting for a Vacant Body
Interviewed the Mummy
Archy to the Radio Fans
Once Every Seventeen Years
The Truth about the Insects
Warty Bliggens
Strange Bedfellows
My Favorite Poem
Always the Lady
Archy's Own Short Course in Entomology
The Patagonian Penguin
Be Glad You're Not a Tomcat
The Most Luckless Creature
Low Brow
Song of Mehitabel
Forgets His Littleness
Business Matters
Fairies
I Knuckle Under
The Dactyl Droops
Investigating Her Morals
Small Talk
Shakespeare and I
Thank You for the Mittens
Archy Is Excited
The Futility of Literature

Notes
Acknowledgments

About the Author

Don Marquis (1878-1937) was a newspaper columnist, poet, novelist, dramatist, and popular author.
Michael Sims is the author most recently of In the Womb- Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries); he is also the author of Apollo's Fire- A Journey through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; Adam's Navel- A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin's Orchestra- An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts. For Penguin Classics he also edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel and Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, and he is currently editing The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime. He has written for many periodicals, from the Washington Post to New Statesman.

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By Jean on February 24, 2009
This Annotated version is superlative. It is both a simple biography incoporating reasons for Don Marquis' fascination with reincarnation and explanations of the popularity of his works...which I have been readin for around half a century or more. I never cease to be heartened by his blend of humor, anarchy, anti-discrimination, and socialism....not to mention his lovely put downs on us humans for our dedicated self-centeredness. This is a deeply cheerful book for us humans what don't believe you should step on any ant...just 'cause you can!!!
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