I Couldn't Help Laughing

by Ogden Nash, Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman

Ask Me A Question - Robert Benchley
Father Is Firm With His Ailments - Clarence Day
Statement Of Arthur James Wentworth, Bachelor Of Arts - Humphrey F. Ellis
The Burglars - Kenneth Grahame
Agamemnon's Career - Lucretia P. Hale
Three Men In A Boat (Chapter VI) - Jerome K. Jerome
An Unsavory Interlude - Rudyard Kipling
Horseshoes - Ring Lardner
My Financial Career - Stephen Leacock
Stranger In The House - Ogden Nash
Frou-frou, Or The Future Of Vertigo - S.J. Perelman
The Shchartz-metterklume Method - Saki
Our Hearts Were Young And Gay (Chapter IV) - Cornelia Otis Skinner And Emily Kimbrough
Crisp New Bills For Mr. Teagle - Frank Sullivan
Miss Rennsdale Accepts - Booth Tarkington
More Alarms At Night - James Thurber
Philip Wedge - E.B. White
Uncle Fred Flits By - P.G. Wodehouse

231 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1957

About the author

Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".

Reviews

[Mary Tuley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ogden Nash never goes out of date because true humor never goes out of date.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with any anthology, some were better than others.