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Since its original publication in 1968, Welcome to the Monkey House has been one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved works. This special edition celebrates a true master of the short-story form by including multiple variant drafts of what would eventually be the title story. In a fascinating accompanying essay, Building the Monkey House: At Kurt Vonnegut's Writing Table, noted Vonnegut scholar Gregory D. Sumner walks readers through Vonnegut's process as the author struggles--false start after false start--to hit upon what would be one of his greatest stories. The result is the rare chance to watch a great writer hone his craft in real time. Includes the following stories: Where I Live Harrison Bergeron Who Am I This Time? Welcome to the Monkey House Long Walk to Forever The Foster Portfolio Miss Temptation All the King's Horses Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog New Dictionary Next Door More Stately Mansions The Hyannis Port Story D.P. Report on the Barnhouse Effect The Euphio Question Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son Deer in the Works The Lie Unready to Wear The Kid Nobody Could Handle The Manned Missiles Epicac Adam Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.-- The Charlotte Observer Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the f
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically--War, Women, Science, Roma
