Robert Benchley

29 books

The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner by Elia Kazan, Edmund Wilson, Alan Dale, Langston Hughes, Frank Rich, Olive Logan, Charles Sprague, William Gillette, Anna Cora Mowatt, Edward P. Hingston, Brooks Atkinson, John Lithgow, Hallie Flanagan, Luis Valdez, Lorraine Hansberry, Hutchins Hapgood, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Thornton Wilder, Jr., Ed Bullins, David Mamet, Morton Eustis, Robert Benchley, Washington Irving, Elizabeth Hardwick, Fred Allen, Willa Cather, Wendy Wasserstein, Ludwig Lewisohn, Gilbert Seldes, John Lahr, Lottie Blair Parker, Walter Kerr, Edward Albee, Djuna Barnes, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, Mary McCarthy, Eric Bentley, Laurence Senelick, Mark Twain, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Charles Ludlam, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harold Clurman, Sidney Skolsky, Alexander Woollcott, S.J. Perelman, Charles L. Mee, John Houseman, John Mason Brown, Channing Pollock, William Winter, Frances Milton Trollope, John Simon, Tony Kushner, William Dunlap, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Van Vechten, Charles King Newcomb, Stark Young, Philip Hone, Susan Sontag, Thomas Wolfe, Walt Whitman, Anne Bogart, Rollin Lynde Hartt, Don Marquis, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, William Goldman, Alain LeRoy Locke, Ezra Pound, Lee Simonson, Spalding Gray, Ring Lardner, James G. Huneker, Thomas M. Disch, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner

Elia Kazan, Edmund Wilson, Alan Dale, Langston Hughes, Frank Rich, Olive Logan, Charles Sprague, William Gillette, Anna Cora Mowatt, Edward P. Hingston, Brooks Atkinson, John Lithgow, Hallie Flanagan, Luis Valdez, Lorraine Hansberry, Hutchins Hapgood, Frances Parkinson Keyes, Thornton Wilder, Jr., Ed Bullins, David Mamet, Morton Eustis, Robert Benchley, Washington Irving, Elizabeth Hardwick, Fred Allen, Willa Cather, Wendy Wasserstein, Ludwig Lewisohn, Gilbert Seldes, John Lahr, Lottie Blair Parker, Walter Kerr, Edward Albee, Djuna Barnes, Hamlin Garland, Henry James, Mary McCarthy, Eric Bentley, Laurence Senelick, Mark Twain, Arthur Miller, Dorothy Parker, Charles Ludlam, Alexis de Tocqueville, Harold Clurman, Sidney Skolsky, Alexander Woollcott, S.J. Perelman, Charles L. Mee, John Houseman, John Mason Brown, Channing Pollock, William Winter, Frances Milton Trollope, John Simon, Tony Kushner, William Dunlap, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Van Vechten, Charles King Newcomb, Stark Young, Philip Hone, Susan Sontag, Thomas Wolfe, Walt Whitman, Anne Bogart, Rollin Lynde Hartt, Don Marquis, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, William Goldman, Alain LeRoy Locke, Ezra Pound, Lee Simonson, Spalding Gray, Ring Lardner, James G. Huneker, Thomas M. Disch, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

nonfiction reference informative reflective slow-paced

850 pages | first published 2010

Benchley Lost and Found by Robert Benchley

Benchley Lost and Found

Robert Benchley

nonfiction essays funny slow-paced

208 pages | first published 1970

The Benchley Roundup by Gluyas Williams, Robert Benchley, Nathaniel Benchley

The Benchley Roundup

Gluyas Williams, Robert Benchley, Nathaniel Benchley

fiction essays short stories reflective medium-paced

359 pages | first published 1921

The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Edward Everett Hale, O. Henry, W.J. Lampton, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Grace MacGowan Cooke, George Randolph Chester, Mark Twain, Harry Stillwell Edwards, George Pope Morris, Wells Hastings, George William Curtis, Edgar Allan Poe, H.C. Bunner, Eliza Leslie, Bret Harte, Caroline Kirkland, Frank R. Stockton, Alexander Jessup

The Best American Humorous Short Stories

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Edward Everett Hale, O. Henry, W.J. Lampton, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Grace MacGowan Cooke, George Randolph Chester, Mark Twain, Harry Stillwell Edwards, George Pope Morris, Wells Hastings, George William Curtis, Edgar Allan Poe, H.C. Bunner, Eliza Leslie, Bret Harte, Caroline Kirkland, Frank R. Stockton, Alexander Jessup

fiction classics short stories adventurous funny slow-paced

529 pages | first published 1920

The Best of Robert Benchley by Robert Benchley

The Best of Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley

nonfiction essays short stories funny reflective medium-paced

353 pages | first published 1990

Love Conquers All by Robert Benchley

Love Conquers All

Robert Benchley

fiction essays funny informative lighthearted slow-paced

224 pages | first published 2007

Of All Things by Gluyas Williams, Robert Benchley

Of All Things

Gluyas Williams, Robert Benchley

nonfiction classics essays funny informative lighthearted slow-paced

234 pages | first published 2000

A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books by Rob Kaplan, Harold Rabinowitz

A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books

Rob Kaplan, Harold Rabinowitz with Christopher Morley, Clifton Fadiman, A. Edward Newton, Caroline Seebohm, Holbrook Jackson, Robert Benchley, Ben D. Zevin, William Targ, Umberto Eco, Estelle Ellis, Susan Sontag, Anatole Broyard, Francesco Petrarca, John Milton, Al Silverman, Debbie Glasserman, Gustave Flaubert, William Keddie, Solly Ganor, Roger Rosenblatt, Stuart Brent, A.S.W. Rosenbach, William Dana Orcutt, Herbert Faulkner West, Jonathan Yardley, John Michell, Philip Roth, Robertson Davies, John Updike, George Hamlin Fitch, Walter Benjamin, Ray Bradbury, Henry Ward Beecher, Nicholas A. Basbanes, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John S. Major, Michel de Montaigne, Anna Quindlen, Edward Robb Ellis, Robert B. Downs

nonfiction essays reflective fast-paced

355 pages | first published 1999

Robert Benchley - Love Conquers All: "Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?" by Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley - Love Conquers All: "Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"

Robert Benchley

fiction essays funny lighthearted fast-paced

114 pages

After 1903 - What? by Robert Benchley
After 1903 - What?
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Robert Benchley

After 1903 - What?

Robert Benchley

271 pages | first published 1938