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Danny's Own Story
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First published January 1, 1912
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Don Marquis
129 books60 followersDonald Robert Perry "Don" Marquis was a newspaper columnist as well as a playwright, novelist, and poet, best known for his "Archy and Mehitabel" free verse and his "Old Soak" anti-Prohibition play.
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January 20, 2013
First novel by the creator of the amazing Archy and Mehitabel. There are definitely a few touches of Marquis' poetic genius, but overall this is very rough and unsatisfying.
It's a picaresque journey through the seedier parts of early-1900s small-town America: hucksters, quacks, fake Indians, temperance unions, uptight schoolmarms with tragic pasts. There are some enjoyable little set-pieces, but then an extended satire on race relations in the South makes very uncomfortable reading (lovingly detailed phonetic slave-speech and more n-words than Django Unchained) as Marquis' mockery feels rather off-the-mark. A moment of genuine tension as the Klan debate whether to lynch a white man (!!!). The resolution of this finally reveals the Plot; it's quite a clever little construction but the young Marquis doesn't know what to do with it after that. The End.
It's a picaresque journey through the seedier parts of early-1900s small-town America: hucksters, quacks, fake Indians, temperance unions, uptight schoolmarms with tragic pasts. There are some enjoyable little set-pieces, but then an extended satire on race relations in the South makes very uncomfortable reading (lovingly detailed phonetic slave-speech and more n-words than Django Unchained) as Marquis' mockery feels rather off-the-mark. A moment of genuine tension as the Klan debate whether to lynch a white man (!!!). The resolution of this finally reveals the Plot; it's quite a clever little construction but the young Marquis doesn't know what to do with it after that. The End.
July 29, 2019
Not as good Archie and mehitabel
It was written in a time when it was ok for prejudices of a race was a careful tool in humor. But, I do like mister marquis's other writing about a certain cockroach ( Who is a poet) and his catty friend.
It was written in a time when it was ok for prejudices of a race was a careful tool in humor. But, I do like mister marquis's other writing about a certain cockroach ( Who is a poet) and his catty friend.
August 26, 2014
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