Will Cuppy: 4 books

Here is one of Will Cuppy's three classic “How-To’s,” considering notable birds and animals whose habits (and often existence) seem to have disturbed Cuppy (“Birds Who Can’t Even Fly,” “Optional Insects,” “Octopuses and Those Things”), as well as more mundane creatures like the frog,...

So you think you know most of what there is to know about people like Nero and Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godiva and Miles Standish? You say there's nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you'll find Will Cuppy footloose in...

Will Cuppy was one of the original staff of Harold Ross’s New Yorker and the author of How to Be a Hermit and How to Become Extinct. He is also, says P.G.Wodehouse in his introduction, “the author of the best thing said about Pekingese, viz. ‘I don’t know why they should look so conceited....

"Caduta e Declino di praticamente tutti" è una satira raffinata ed esilarante sui più grandi personaggi della storia dell'umanità. Dai faraoni ad Alessandro Magno, da Lucrezia Borgia agli zar russi, questo libro racconta le vicende umane dei grandi della storia, senza risparmiare feroci...