Without Feathers is a 1975 collection of humorous essays and two one-act plays, Death and God, by Woody Allen. It is one of Allen's best-known books, spending four months on the New York Times Best Seller List.
Title meaning The title Without Feathers is a reference to Emily Dickinson's poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers", reflecting Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness. The poem is mentioned in one of the stories.In "Selections from the Allen Notebooks", 9.
Contents Selections from The Allen Notebooks Examining Psychic Phenomena A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets The Scrolls Lovborg's Women Considered The Whore of Mensa The New Yorker, Dec. 16, 1974, pp.37-8 Death (A Play) The Early Essays A Brief Yet Helpful Guide to Civil Disobedience Match Wits With Inspector Ford The Irish Genius God (A Play) Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts But Soft. Real Soft. If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists No Kaddish for Weinstein Fine Times: An Oral Memoir Slang Origins
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