Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The Legendary Writers of the 'Vicious Circle'Collected Together For the First Time'The Algonquin was a refuge for the brightest authors, editors, critics, columnists, artists, financiers, composers, directors, producers and actors of the times. The dining-room corner was a hot bed of raconteurs and conversationalists.'-Harpo MarxIn Jazz Age New York City, no literary lights burned more brightly than those of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. Now between covers for the first time is a collection of writing by 16 members of the group, an all-star gathering that took 90 years to come together. Many of these pieces have never been published before; plucked from private family collections and 'lost' pieces from obscure periodicals.● Humor pieces by Robert Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun, Frank Sullivan and Donald Ogden Stewart.● Criticism from Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood.● Short fiction by Laurence Stallings and Pulitzer Prize-winners Edna Ferber and Margaret Leech.● Journalism from Alexander Woollcott, Ruth Hale and Deems Taylor.● Poetry by Adams, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker and John V. A. Weaver.With a foreword by Nat Benchley.
