Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War - Softcover
“It is interesting to note that the reviewers of ‘Mr. Dooley’ in the English press agree with the American critics in placing him high among our genuine humorists. As a national satirist, the Academy declares that ‘Mr. Dooley’ is worthy to take his place beside Hosea Bigelow....We think that Mr. Dooley is a person who will live a long time in the memories of those who read his words of wisdom as recorded by the pen of Mr. Dunne...Mr. Dooley is a type. He has all an Irishman’s shrewdness, an Irishman’s combativeness, an Irishman’s independence, an Irishman’s underlying appreciation of courage and loyalty, and also an Irishman’s keen wit and picturesque phraseology, and that inevitable genius for blundering that is also Irish. He is as individual as Mulvaney and his philosophy is broader and has to do with a wider field...To read Mr. Dooley is to get a peep into the universal consciousness of mankind, to come into close touch with clear-sighted reasonableness, wrapped up but not concealed by a hundred whimsical exaggerations.” -The Bookman
“America now owns a humorist who wields the shafts of ridicule with as unerring an aim as the immortal but temporarily forgotten Artemus Ward himself...Mr. Dunne’s method, it may be observed, is more subtle and less genial than that of Artemus Ward. He does not assume the character of a native-born American, but employs as his mouthpiece an Irish immigrant who speaks a strange sort of hybrid lingo, three parts Irish brogue and the rest cockney Chicagesque....In the domain of criticism, Mr. Dooley has eclipsed all competitors by his mingled satire and sagacity.” -The Spectator
“Mr. Dooley must be added to the acquaintance of all who esteem good humor...He has his opinions on everything that happens, and, in spite of some ignorance of detail, he has the knack of hitting the center. His greatest gift is the witty Irishman’s capacity to improvise satirical situations and dialogue.” -The Academy
“His philosophy is not like an arc-light – one steady, concentrated blaze; it is more like the diamond, like its many-sided brilliance....In plain words, Mr. Dooley proved that he could flash at every turn.” -British Books
“Mr. Dunne’s art consists in taking a national trait which the nation concerned recognizes as such, and developing the humor of that trait to the nth power – but in such a way that the reader never for a moment loses the impression that what he is saying is absolutely true fundamentally. A remarkable feature of all the Dooley books is their lasting quality. Reading everything that Mr. Dunne makes Mr. Dooley say is an experience rather like overeating, but the incidents after many years still retain their flavor. There is so much quotable in the eight published volumes of Mr. Dooley that one cannot begin to select the best. It is easy to find an illustration of almost any phase of American or European life in Mr. Dooley’s talks. His versatility is astounding; he discusses everything from Arctic explorations to criminal trials....The wit rolls off quickly, spontaneously, continuously. Any historian who is an historian according to the definitions in ‘Observations of Mr. Dooley’ will use Dooley as the most complete available background of the politics and affairs of the last twenty years.” -The Bookman
“Must be seriously considered as a claimant for a place among the real contributions to American humor.” -The Atlantic
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Finley Peter Dunne was the greatest American newspaper humorist of his time. His turn-of-the-century dialect essays for the Chicago Evening Post and the Chicago Journal featured the fictional Mr. Dooley and the working-class community of Bridgeport, located on Chicago's near southwest side. Originally published in 1898, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War was the first collection of Dunne's popular essays.
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"It is a disgrace to American scholarship that [Dunne] is not studied, and thus republished and enjoyed on a par with Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce." -- Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1534654976
- ISBN 13 9781534654976
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages150
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