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

by Robert Benchley and Peter Benchley

Book Overview

Robert Charles Benchley was born on September 15th, 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts. Benchley wrote over 600 essays and is a humorist best known for his work for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. These essays, which ranged from topical to the absurdist, influenced many modern humorists. His humor was obvious from the time he attended Harvard University and was a writer for Harvard Lampoon. Benchley seemed to have an effortless way of creating humour...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178737274X
• ISBN13: 9781787372740
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Horse's Mouth
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Clean Fun

Benchley's eye for the absurd rarely misses, and he offers an entertaining view of a "simpler" time.

A fine collection of humorous short pieces.

"Love Conquers All," by Robert Benchley, is a collection of 63 short humor that appeared in magazines prior to 1922. We have a handful of funny reviews of books that are probably no longer available (but you don't need to know about the book to laugh at the review) such as "Measure Your Mind," or "Those Dangerously Dynamic British Girls." There are a few parodies of opera plots, always a hard thing to do since opera plots are so fundamentally absurd anyway, but Benchley manages it nicely. There are also a few pieces on how to watch various sports; "How to Watch a Chess Match," "Watching Baseball," and "The Score in the Stands" are all a trifle dated but still amuse. Students who go home for Christmas will understand "Home for the Holidays," even though it is quite out of date too; the humor endures even though many of the references are out of date (dress-studs?). All in all, a wonderful book even though some of the humor is a little hard to get to.