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The Most Of S.J.Perelman

by S.J. Perelman · 1958

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This definitive collection brings together the finest of Sidney Joseph Perelman's comic writings, satires and parodies, from The Customer is Always Wrong and Boy Meets Gull to Is There an Osteosynchrondroitrician in the House? and The Pants Recaptured.

Genre
humor
Setting
1950s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 185 pages
Form
short storiesessaysgraphic novels

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