O K*a*p*l*a*n! My K*a*p*l*a*n!

by Leo Rosten

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060136766
• ISBN13: 9780060136765
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Masterpiece of Humor!

This book is the ultimate collection of Leo Rosten's humorous stories about Mr. Kaplan, a student in The American Night Preparatory School for Adults, where immigrants are tutored in the baffling mysteries of the English Language. Mr. Kaplan is dedicated, hard-working, and intelligent, yet concepts of English grammer, vocabulary, and pronounciation just refuse to sink in. Like when he claimed that the plural of sandwich is "delicatessen". Or his idenitification of the comparative and superlative of good as "Good, better, high-class". Or his immortal patriotic speech about "Judge Vashington" and the egregious betrayal by "Ben and Dick Arnold." But much more than a bogged-down student, Mr. Kaplan is a good-hearted and strangely eloquent man who regards his malapropisms as creativity rather than error, offers moral support to students less self-confident than he, and frequenly crosses swords with his more competent but less imaginative classmates, many of whom are equally vivid, loveable, and quirky: Shy Rose Mitnick, cantankerous Norman Bloom, sultry Olga "I am Woomon" Tarnova, bubbly and laughing Nathan P. Nathan, and of course the infinitely patient teacher and straight-man, Mr. Parkhill._O Kaplan, My Kaplan_ includes all the stories from _The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N_ and _The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N_, plus a host of new stories and new characters. The book is the creme de la creme of Mr. Kaplan's world and should NEVER have gone out of print!