Archy and Mehitabel

1970

by Don Marquis

Archy and Mehitabel is the now classic tale of Archy, a philosophical cockroach, and Mehitabel, a cat in her ninth life. First published in 1927, this free verse poem has become an essential part of American literature.

Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis. Marquis's satirical free-verse poems, which first appeared in his New York newspaper columns in 1916, revolve around the escapades of Archy, a philosophical cockroach who was a poet in a previous life, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was once Cleopatra.

Reincarnated as the lowest creatures on the social scale, they prowl the rowdy streets of New York City in between the world wars, and Archy records their experiences and observations on the boss's typewriter late at night.

First published in 1927, Archy and Mehitabel has become a celebrated part of the twentieth-century American literary canon.

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