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Additional authors

1. Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP

Description

1. 277 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire -- and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker's razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College -- mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. Women's colleges > Fiction
3. American fiction > 20th century
4. American fiction
5. Women's colleges
6. North Carolina > Fiction
7. North Carolina

Genre/Form

1. Fictional Work
2. Fiction
3. Fiction.
4. Proofs (Printing) - New York - 20th century.
5. Romans.

Contents

1. The president, Mrs., and Derek Robbins. -- The Whittakers and Gertrude. -- Miss Batterson and Benton. -- Constance and the Rosenbaums. -- Gertrude and Sidney. -- Art night. -- They all go.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Novel.