Dead Dodo Presents Irvin S Cobb: 13 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Eating in Two or Three Languages.’   The famous book of wartime culinary memoirs by Irvin S. Cobb.   Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening Post during 1911, and covered the Great War...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Roughing it De Luxe.’   “Cobb is a marvelous writer. The section about his travels in the Grand Canyon needs to be read by every person who likes both travel and humor, because it's hysterically funny. Cobb comes...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘A Plea for Old Cap Collier.’   This is a short novel in which the author makes the case for the value of dime novels as a more fun, immediate read than the "classic" books more in favor with parents and educators....

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘The Thunders of Silence.’   A disturbing, and luckily impossible to implement, story of a demagogue driven to destruction by the press. He has to be destroyed because he is treasonous--he preaches peace when the country...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Fibble, D.D..’   A collection of three short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, telling the comic misadventures of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D.D.   Cobb joined the staff...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘Europe Revised.’   Mr. Cobb's commentary on traveling in Europe as an American around the turn of the previous century gives an interesting sense of the era, and is always at least mildly amusing. But the real...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Those Times And These.’   A classic work of fiction featuring Judge Priest, dramatic and compelling, using a wealthy of precisely rendered detail to evoke a powerful mood.   Cobb joined the staff of...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘The Abandoned Farmers.’   A satirical story about one man's decision to leave the city.   Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Cobb's Bill-of-Fare.’   Upon a certain gladsome occasion a certain man went into a certain restaurant in a certain large city, being imbued with the idea that he desired a certain kind of food. Expense was with him...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘Local Color.’   Felix Looms, the well-known author, disappeared - or, rather, he went away - on or about June fifteenth, four years ago. He told his friends, his landlady and his publisher - he had no immediate...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘The Escape of Mr. Trimm.’   Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘One Third Off.’   Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915),...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘"Speaking of Operations".   Speaking of Operations is a monologue about the author's experience in having an operation in 1915 written in his typical tongue-in-cheek style.   American author,...