Seventeen is about the cusp of adulthood and has been specially written for a rollcall of the country’s great senior actors— Peter Carroll, Maggie Dence, Judi Farr, John Gaden and Barry Otto—all playing a group of teenagers, drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying and maybe even pashing, thei
Threescore and Seventeen
✍ Scribed by Robert Benchley
- Publisher
- MobileRead.com
- Year
- 1921
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist, actor, and drama critic. His main persona, that of a slightly confused, ineffectual, socially awkward bumbler, served in his essays and short films to gain him the sobriquet “the humorist’s humorist.” The character allowed him to comment brilliantly on the world’s absurdities. (—Encyclopedia Britannica ~~~ Benchley is best remembered for his contributions to periodicals such as Life, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. Collections of these essays and articles stand today as tribute to his brilliance.
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