Tobogganing on Parnassus

by Franklin P. Adams

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Genres: Humor, Poetry

107 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1911

About the author

Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881, Chicago, Illinois – March 23, 1960, New York City, New York) was an American columnist (under the pen name FPA) and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower," and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.

Reviews

[Vicious Circle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although he published a rare book of juvenilia ten years before, Tobogganing on Parnassus is the first important book by the dean of the Algonquin Round Table, Franklin Pierce Adams (“FPA”). The light verse collected came mostly from his column “Always in Good Humor”, published in the New York Evening Mail, along with a few pieces published in popular magazines. Adams was known for having a deft ear for rhythm and rhyme and burlesqued Roman poets by translating them into colloquial language of his day. Other poems in the book include satiric Christmas cards to those annoying him as well as chronicling the failure of the Adams household to secure a reliable, competent cook or live in a comfortable, quiet neighborhood. Many of the urban annoyances he faced hasn’t changed much in the past hundred years. Followed by In Other Words (1913).

[Gort · Rating 4 out of 5]

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