Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

's Without Feathers (1975, ISBN 0-394-49743-0) is one of his best-known literary pieces. The book spent 4 months on the New York Times Bestseller List. The book is a collection of short stories and also features two one act plays, Death

Death (play)

Death is a play by Woody Allen. It was first published in 1975, along with God, and other short stories in Woody Allen's book Without Feathers. It is a comedic version of Eugene Ionesco's 1959 play "The Killer." His 1992 film Shadows and Fog was based on this play....

and God

God (play)

God, subtitled A Comedy in One Act, is a play by Woody Allen. It was first published in 1975, along with Death, and other short stories in Woody Allen's book Without Feathers.- External links :**...

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Title meaning

The title "Without Feathers" is a reference to Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life...

's poem "'Hope' Is the Thing with Feathers", reflecting Woody Allen's neurotic sense of hopelessness. The Dickinson poem is mentioned in one of the stories in the collection.

Contents

1. Selections from The Allen Notebooks
2. Examining Psychic Phenomena
3. A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets
4. The Scrolls
5. Lovborg's Women Considered
6. The Whore of Mensa
7. Death (A Play)
8. The Early Essays
9. A Brief Yet Helpful Guide to Civil Disobedience
10. Match Wits With Inspector Ford
11. The Irish Genius
12. God (A Play)
13. Fabulous Tales and Mythical Beasts
14. But Soft. Real Soft.
15. If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists
16. No Kaddish for Weinstein
17. Fine Times: An Oral Memoir
18. Slang Origins