Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Tobogganing On Parnassus

Tobogganing On Parnassus

Adams, Franklin P.

Paperback

General PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1438535732
ISBN13: 9781438535739
Publisher: Book Jungle
Published: Feb 4 2010
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.23 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Franklin Pierce Adams (1881 -1960) was an American columnist who used the pen name F.P.A. He was best known for his newspaper column, The Conning Tower. FPA often included parodies in his column. During World War I, Adams was in the U.S. Army, assigned to the military newspaper Stars and Stripes. His books include Tobogganning on Parnassus (1911), Answer This One (a 1927 trivia book with Harry Hansen) and The Melancholy Lute (1936). A few of the poems in this collection include Us Poets, Rubber-Stamp Humour, The Simple Stuff, Carpe Diem or Cop The Day, That for Money!, Xanthias Jollied, Horace the Wise, Jealousy, To Be Quite Frank, R. S. V. P., Advice, When Horace Came Back, Nix on the Fluffy Stuff, Catullus, Considerable Kisser, V. Catullus Explains, The Rich Man, To-night, Those Two Boys, Help! The Passionate Householder to His Love, and The Servants.

4 different editions

Also available

Also in

General Poetry

View All