Studies in Short Fiction, March 22nd, 1993
S. J. Perelman: Critical Essays, the first volume of a new series entitled "Studies in Humor," is a commendable beginning, but it may not sustain editor Steven H. Gale's belief that Perelman belongs among such "major humorists" as Geoffrey Chaucer and Mark Twain who are to appear in subsequent volumes of the series, for which Gale is to serve as General Editor.
From newspapers, journals, and scholarly books, Gale reprints 24 pieces of opinion and scholarship on Perelman that span the seven decades of his career. These inclusions are sufficiently representative despite the amount of commenta...
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